English Explanatory Dictionary

-ing

English dictionary entry

Meanings

suffix
  1. 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.
  2. As true nouns.
  3. As gerunds.
  4. Used to form nouns denoting materials or systems of objects which are used or employed in an action, or considered collectively.
suffix
  1. Used to form present participles of verbs.
suffix
  1. Forming derivative nouns (originally masculine), with the sense ‘son of, belonging to’, as in placenames, patronymics or diminutives; -ite.
  2. Forming nouns having a specified quality, characteristic, or nature; of the kind of

Pronunciation

/ɪŋ/ /ɪn/ /ən/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl--ing.wav En-us--ing.oga /ɪŋɡ/ /ɪŋk/ /in/ /iŋ/

Word forms

-ing -in' -in -ïng

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”).

Synonyms

-tion -ment -ery -age

Related words

work -ed

Derived words

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

Translations

Danish: -ing Dutch: -ing Faroese: -ing French: -age French: -tion French: -ment German: -ung Italian: -zione (-azione f, -uzione f) Italian: -mento Italian: -aggio Low German: -d Low German: -ung Low German: -en Low German: -inge Low German: -ing Low German: -unge Middle Low German: -t Middle Low German: -inge Norwegian Bokmål: -ing Norwegian Nynorsk: -ing Old Norse: -ing Polish: -nie Polish: -cie Romanian: -re Russian: -а́ние Russian: -е́ние Russian: -о́вка Russian: -ля Swedish: -ing Yiddish: ־ונג
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