-ing
suffix
- (forms present participial adjectives from verbs)
suffix
- noun suffix meaning "one of a (specified) kind"
suffix
- (forms gerundial nouns from verbs)
- noun suffix meaning "action or process" or "instance of an action or process"
- noun suffix meaning "product or result of an action or process," often in plural form
- noun suffix meaning "something used in an action or process"
- noun suffix meaning "action or process connected with (a specified thing)"
- noun suffix meaning "something connected with, consisting of, or used in making (a specified thing)"
- noun suffix meaning "something related to (a specified concept)"
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ɪŋ/ / /ɪn/ / /ən/
suffix
Etymology: From Middle English -ynge, from Old English -ing, from Proto-West Germanic *-ing, from Proto-Germanic *-ingaz. Akin to Old Norse -ingr.
- 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”
- Forming nouns having a specified quality, characteristic, or nature; of the kind of
“sweet + -ing → sweeting”
“white + -ing → whiting”