intinga

intinga

1. inflection of intingere:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• ginnati

• inting, intiga, intincga, inntinga
• inðinga, inðing — Northumbrian

From in- +‎ *tinga, related to ġetingan (“to press, squeeze”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈinˌtin.ɡɑ/, [ˈinˌtiŋ.ɡɑ]

intinga m

1. cause, reason
   • c. 992, Ælfric, "The Annunciation of St. Mary"

     Swīðe þæslīċ anġinn mennisċre alȳsednysse wæs þæt þā sē enġel wearð āsend fram Gode tō ðām mǣdene, tō cȳðenne Godes acennednysse þurh hī; forðan ðe sē forma intinga mennisċes forwyrdes wæs, þāþā sē dēofol āsende ōðerne dēofol, on næddran anlīcnysse, tō ðām frumsċeapenan wīfe Ēuan, hī tō beswīcenne.

     A very fitting beginning of human redemption was that when the angel was sent from God to the virgin, to announce the birth of God through her; because the first cause of man's perdition was when the devil sent another devil, in likeness of a serpent, to the first-created woman Eve, for the purpose of deceiving her.

2. matter, affair, business
3. occasion, pretense

Weak:

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “intinga”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Angus Cameron, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette diPaolo Healey, editors (2018), “intinga, inting, inþing”, in Dictionary of Old English: A to Le ⁠, Toronto: University of Toronto, →OCLC.