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Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bertel Lund Hansen <gadekryds@lundhansen.dk> Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,sci.lang Subject: Re: Somewheres Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2024 19:01:30 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 14 Message-ID: <vb4r1a$2u3k8$1@dont-email.me> References: <vatljd$mjf9$1@dont-email.me> <pan$446ac$ba5dac04$67ebf9e0$47ac5644@gmail.com> <vb0a62$170hl$1@dont-email.me> <pan$6cdcd$a1e57e8a$8ebe27ea$32af951f@gmail.com> <f5140de8d161885842798961deb38a46@www.novabbs.com> <m31q2260rz.fsf@leonis4.robolove.meer.net> <vb4ejj$2rvka$1@dont-email.me> <ub2hqkx9pl.ln2@news.ducksburg.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2024 19:01:31 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2b8780f334df5e50580bec7745eabb1e"; logging-data="3083912"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19IcCOD2Y6Rmn3qtrACFs1GdZY1p/YoEukGHN3BxGZSHg==" User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:1RaKJkQrccilDdRFdqjqulPrmyo= Bytes: 1711 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