ryngen

• ringe, ringen, ringue, rynge, ryngyn
• ringenn (Ormulum)
• ryng (Northeast Midland or Late Middle English)

Inherited from Old English hrinġan (weak class 1), from Proto-West Germanic *hringijan, from Proto-Germanic *hringijaną.

The pronunciation with /ɡ/ is due to levelling from the Old English past tense hringde, while the inflection as a strong class 3 verb is from analogy with verbs such as singen and spryngen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrinɡən/, /ˈriːnɡən/

ryngen (third-person singular simple present ryngeth, present participle ryngynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative rong, past participle rongen)

1. (intransitive) To ring (resound like a bell):
   • 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Knẏghtes Tale”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 31, verso:

     And wıth that woꝛd / the Arwes ın the Caas / Of the goddeſſe / clateren faſte and rẏnge […]

     And with that word, / the arrows in the quiver / of the goddess / quickly clatter and ring […]

   1. To be filled with ringing or reverberation.
   2. To echo or reverberate throughout.
   3. (rare) To be signalled or announced with ringing.
2. (usually transitive) To ring (cause to resound like a bell):
   1. To produce a sound by ringing.
   2. To signal or announce with ringing.
   3. (figuratively) To disclose, announce, or proclaim.

• This verb is mostly a strong verb in Middle English; the etymological weak inflection is retained in Laȝamon's Brut (Cotton Caligula A.9) and may have persisted in some varieties as ringed is amply attested in Early Modern English, though this could be a reinnovation.

• English: ring
• Middle Scots: ring, ryng
  • Scots: ring

• “ringen, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “ring, v.¹”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.