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Vinony

ending

noun

  1. anime ending credits
  2. cause to stop, coming to a close
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈɛndɪŋ/

noun

Etymology: From Middle English endynge, endyng, endinge, from Old English endung, ġeendung (“ending”), equivalent to end + -ing. Cognate with Dutch ending (“ending”), German Endung (“ending”).

  1. A termination or conclusion.
  2. The last part of something.

    “The book has a happy ending.”

    “The film has an unexpected ending.”

  3. 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.”

verb

Etymology: 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.

  1. present participle and gerund of end