penning

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛnɪŋ/
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /ˈpɪnɪŋ/
  • Homophone: pinning (pin–pen merger)
• Rhymes: -ɛnɪŋ

penning

1. present participle and gerund of pen

penning (plural pennings)

1. Writing; literary composition.

   the idle pennings of a poetic daydreamer

penning (plural pennings or penningar)

1. (historical) An old currency unit, the Swedish penning.

From Old Danish pænning, Old Norse peningr, borrowed from Old Saxon penning or Old English penning, peniġ, from Proto-Germanic *panningaz (“coin”). Cognate with English penny and German Pfennig.

This word is the source of the common word for "money" in modern Scandinavian, see penge.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʰɛneŋ]

penning c (singular definite penningen, plural indefinite penninge)

1. (historical) coin or currency in use in Denmark until 1602

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛ.nɪŋ/

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• Hyphenation: pen‧ning
• Rhymes: -ɛnɪŋ

From Middle Dutch penninc, from Old Dutch pennink, from Proto-Germanic *panningaz. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

penning m (plural penningen, diminutive penninkje n)

1. (historical) a small coin, usually made of silver but later also of gold; penny
2. a medal or commemoration coin
3. (figurative) money, cash
4. (obsolete) coin

• Negerhollands: penning
• → Indonesian: péning
• → Papiamentu: penning

From pennen +‎ -ing.

penning f (plural penningen, no diminutive)

1. (chess) pin, pinning

• pending, pæning, pening, pæniġ, peniġ

From Proto-West Germanic *panning, from Proto-Germanic *panningaz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpen.ninɡ/, [ˈpen.niŋɡ]

penning m

1. penny
   • Laws of King Ine

     Oxan horn bið X pæninga weorð.

     The worth of an ox's horn is ten pennies.

Strong a-stem:

• Middle English: peny, peni, pene, peney, penny, peyne (Late Middle English), pani, pany (especially East Saxon or West Midland), peninnꟑ (Ormulum)
  • English: penny (see there for further descendants)
  • Middle Scots: penny
    • Scots: penny
• → Old Irish: pinginn, penginn (possibly from Old Norse)
  • Irish: pingin
• → Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: penique

From Old Norse penningr, from Proto-Germanic *panningaz. Cognate with English penny.

penning c

1. a coin, a penny
2. money, cash

• peng

• → Finnish: penninki, penni