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From: Bertel Lund Hansen
Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,sci.lang
Subject: Re: Somewheres
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2024 19:01:30 +0200
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
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Adam Funk wrote:
> The -ing suffix in Modern English is a fusion of two Old English
> suffixes, one similar to German -ung & the other to German -end. I'm
> not sure of the extent to which that encouraged the development of the
> current -in'/-ing situation.
One might add that the -ung is a suffix that substantivates a verb,
while the -end makes the verbform present particip. There are parallels
in Danish where we have -(n)ing and -ende.
--
Bertel
Kolt, Denmark