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Inge is a given name in various Germanic language-speaking cultures. In Swedish and Norwegian, it is mostly used as a masculine, but less often also as a feminine name, sometimes as a short form of Ingeborg , while in Danish, Estonian, Frisian, German and Dutch it is exclusively feminine.
The feminine given name Inga is a variant of the German and Scandinavian name Inge. It derives from the Germanic deity Ing. [1] Notable people with the name include: Inga of Varteig (c. 1185 – 1234), mistress of King Haakon III of Norway and the mother of King Haakon IV; Inga Abel (1946–2000), German actress
Ingo is a masculine given name in contemporary Scandinavia and Germany, and a historical name in France. [citation needed] It is a Latinized form of the given name Inge. [1]It is the male version of the name Inga, used in the same region.
Ingeborg is a Germanic feminine given name, mostly used in Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, derived from Old Norse Ingiborg, Ingibjǫrg, combining the theonym Ing with the element borg "stronghold, protection". Ingebjørg is the Norwegian most used variant of the name, and Ingibjörg is the Icelandic variant.
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs, which are written differently but pronounced the same).
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William Motter Inge (/ ˈ ɪ n dʒ /; [1] May 3, 1913 – June 10, 1973) was an American playwright and novelist, whose works typically feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations.
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