-ing

English

/ɪŋ/, /ɪŋɡ/, /ɪŋk/, /in/

suffix
Definitions
  • Used to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns, from verbs.
  • Used to form uncountable nouns from verbs denoting the act of doing something, an action.
  • Used to form uncountable nouns from various part of speech

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English -ing (gerund ending, blossom, nominalising ending, present participle ending) inherited from Old English -ing (belonging to, of the) inherited from Proto-Germanic *-ingō (-ing).

Origin

Proto-Germanic

*-ingō

Gloss

-ing

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