sing

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To make musical sounds with your voice.

   I really want to sing in the school choir.

2. 2
   verb

   To perform a song using words and a tune.

   She sang a lullaby to the baby.

3. 3
   verb

   (of a bird) to make pleasant musical sounds.

   The nightingale was singing outside the window.

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Simplified etymology

Sing is an Old English word derived from the same ancient root as song.

From Middle English singen, from Old English singan (“to sing”), from Proto-West Germanic *singwan, from Proto-Germanic *singwaną (“to sing”), from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷʰ- (“to recite, sing”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian sjunge (“to sing”), West Frisian sjonge (“to sing”), Dutch zingen (“to sing”), German Low German singen (“to sing”), German singen (“to sing”), Danish synge (“to sing”), Swedish sjunga (“to sing”), Icelandic syngja (“to sing”), Ancient Greek ὀμφή (omphḗ, “voice, oracle”).

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