ending
nounEtymology
From Middle English ending, endyng, endende, from Old English endiende, from Proto-Germanic *andijōndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *andijōną (“to end”), equivalent to end + -ing.
- inherited from *andijōndz✻
- inherited from endiende
- inherited from ending
Definitions
A termination or conclusion.
The last part of something.
- The book has a happy ending.
- The film has an unexpected ending.
The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -s in…
The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -s in "dogs").
- Spanish verb forms have different endings depending on the tense, mood and person.
- Using diachronic evidence from Swedish, I will show that inflectional endings may be maintained as “less cumulative” inflections, or even degrammaticalize into a derivational suffix or a clitic.
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present participle and gerund of end
The neighborhood
- synonymtermination
- synonymsuffix
Derived
bad ending, case ending, double-ending, Elam ending, endingless, fairy-tale ending, fairytale ending, feminine ending, good beginning makes a good ending, good ending, happy ending, harem ending, Hollywood ending, masculine ending, nerve ending, never-ending, true ending, world ending, world-ending, zero ending
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at ending. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at ending. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at ending
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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