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From: Bertel Lund Hansen <gadekryds@lundhansen.dk>
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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