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-ing is a suffix used to make one of the inflected forms of English verbs. This verb form is used as a present participle, as a gerund, and sometimes as an independent noun or adjective. The suffix is also found in certain words like morning and ceiling, and in names such as Browning.
-kje for words ending in -ing: koning (king) → koninkje (the 'ng'-sound transforms into 'nk'), but vondeling → vondelingetje (foundling) -tje for words ending in -h, -j, -l, -n, -r, -w, or a vowel other than -y: zoen → zoen tje ( kiss ), boei → boei tje ( buoy ), appel → appel tje ( apple ), ei → ei tje ( egg ), keu → keu tje ...
With devoiced ending and vowel shortening; originally strong, class 2: make – made – made remake – remade – remade unmake – unmade – unmade: Weak: Made formed by contraction from "maked" may – might – (none) Preterite-present: Defective; see English modal verbs: mean – meant – meant: Weak, class 1: With devoiced ending and ...
The ology ending is a combination of the letter o plus logy in which the letter o is used as an interconsonantal letter which, for phonological reasons, precedes the morpheme suffix logy. [1] Logy is a suffix in the English language, used with words originally adapted from Ancient Greek ending in -λογία ( -logia ).
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Often following the name of a person, -ing means "folk of" or "clan of", and -ton suggests a village. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The following is a list of surnames, place names, and fictional names that are suffixed with -ington .
This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc.) then borrowed back into English (e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, nordic, etc.).
NG-coalescence – reduction of the final cluster [ŋɡ] to [ŋ], in words like hang, which has occurred in all but a few English dialects. G-dropping – reduction of the final cluster [ŋɡ] to [n] in weak syllables, principally in the verb ending -ing, which has occurred in many English dialects, although not in the modern standard varieties.