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-ing

suffix
/ɪŋ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English -ing, -yng, -ynge, from Old English -ing, -ung (“-ing”, suffix forming nouns from verbs), from Proto-West Germanic *-ingu, *-ungu, from Proto-Germanic *-ingō, *-ungō (“-ing”). Cognates Cognate with Scots -in, -in', -ing (“-ing”), Yola -een (“-ing”), Saterland Frisian -enge (“-ing”), Dutch -ing (“-ing”), German and Luxembourgish -ung (“-ing”), Danish -ing, -ning (“-ing”), Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish -ing (“-ing”), French -ange (“-ing”). Unrelated to Brahui -اِنْگ (-iṅg, “a suffix used to form infinitive or verbal noun from the base verb; -ing”).

  1. derived from *-onts✻
  2. inherited from *-andz✻
  3. inherited from *-andī✻
  4. inherited from -ende
  5. derived from -inge

Definitions

  1. Used to form nouns or noun-like words (or elements of noun phrases) from verbs, denoting…

    Used to form nouns or noun-like words (or elements of noun phrases) from verbs, denoting the act of doing something, an action, or the embodiment of an action.

    • My hearing is not good.
    • I have had several meetings with him.

  2. Used to form nouns denoting materials or systems of objects which are used or employed in…

    Used to form nouns denoting materials or systems of objects which are used or employed in an action, or considered collectively.

    • Roofing is material that is used to roof.
    • Clothing is material with which one is clothed.
    • The piping is a system of pipes considered collectively.

  3. Used to form present participles of verbs.

    • Rolling stones gather no moss.
    • My new cabin, which is going to look over the lake, is getting a brand new roof this winter.
    • I wondered what time the play was starting.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Forming derivative nouns (originally masculine), with the sense ‘son of, belonging to’,…

      Forming derivative nouns (originally masculine), with the sense ‘son of, belonging to’, as in placenames, patronymics or diminutives; -ite.

      • Ealing, Dorking, Reading, Worthing
      • Browning, Channing, Ewing
      • Middle English *bunt + -ing → bunting

    2. Forming nouns having a specified quality, characteristic, or nature

      Forming nouns having a specified quality, characteristic, or nature; of the kind of

      • sweet + -ing → sweeting
      • white + -ing → whiting
      • geld + -ing → gelding

The neighborhood

  • synonym-tionact of doing something, action
  • synonym-mentact of doing something, action
  • synonym-eryactivity
  • synonym-agecollection
  • neighborworkcollection

Derived

batting, bunting, carpeting, lining, packing, piping, roofing, siding, ticking, tubing, wadding, wiring

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for -ing. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA