1. Etymology of the English suffix -ing

Derivations in English

fairing, staging, steading, earing, farthing, wolvering, advertising, airing, angling, arching, ashlaring, backing, bagging, banding, banking, basting, batting, beading, beagling, belling, belting, birling, birthing, bitting, blackbirding, blacking, blading, blanketing, blocking, blonding, blooding, bluing, boarding, bobbing, bobsledding, booking, booting, bowing, bowling, boxing, bracketing, brainstorming, breasting, breeching, bridging, briefing, broadcasting, bulkheading, bushing, butting, cabling, caning, capping, carpentering, carpeting, casing, caving, centering, chasing, cladding, clambering, cleaning, cloning, coating, coding, companding, computing, conditioning, conferencing, conveyancing, coping, copping, corbeling, coring, costuming, counseling, couponing, coursing, cowling, crabbing, crackling, cradling, cresting, cribbing, cycling, daffing, dairying, darning, deadening, deafening, decking, dieseling, doping, drafting, draying, drilling, drubbing, ducting, duetting, dunking, dusting, easting, edging, embedding, engineering, engraving, etching, fagoting, farming, feathering, feazing, felting, fettling, filleting, filming, fining, fireproofing, flashing, flavoring, flooring, flouncing, fluting, forwarding, foxing, fratching, friezing, frilling, frosting, furnishing, gadrooning, gaming, gapping, gardening, gassing, gearing, gettering, ghosting, gilling, goffering, goring, grafting, grappling, greening, grizzling, gunning, hankering, hardening, hashing, hatching, hazing, hoarding, hosing, hotdogging, hounding, icing, inbreeding, infolding, interlining, ironing, jotting, karyotyping, keening, kegling, kerning, kilting, kiting, knotting, knurling, lading, lasing, lathing, latticing, lawyering, layering, legging, lettering, lightening, lipreading, listing, lobstering, longshoring, looming, lowriding, lumbering, lustering, luting, mailing, mainstreaming, mantling, mapping, marbling, marketing, masting, matchboarding, matrixing, matting, messaging, misgiving, modeling, mothering

Usage

Word found in Old English, Modern English

2. Etymology of the English suffix -ing

Derivations in English

absorbing, accepting, accommodating, adjoining, admiring, affecting, aggravating, agonizing, ailing, alarming, alluring, amazing, amusing, appalling, arresting, assuming, astonishing, astounding, attending, barring, beaming, befitting, besetting, bewildering, bewitching, bleeping, blinking, blistering, bouncing, bumbling, calculating, canting, chilling, choking, clasping, clodhopping, cloying, commanding, compelling, condescending, confiding, conflicting, confusing, considering, consulting, consuming, corking, corresponding, crashing, crowning, damaging, damning, dashing, deciding, degrading, demanding, demeaning, depressing, deserving, devastating, developing, disappointing, disarming, discerning, disgusting, disparaging, disquieting, distinguishing, disturbing, diverting, dizzying, doddering, domineering, doting, dragging, emerging, enabling, enchanting, endearing, enduring, engaging, engrossing, enterprising, entertaining, exacting, exceeding, excepting, exciting, excruciating, exhausting, fascinating, fetching, flagging, flaring, floating, footling, forbidding, forgiving, freewheeling, freezing, fulgurating, galling, galloping, glancing, grasping, gratifying, gripping, harrowing, homing, hopping, hulking, humiliating, humming, illuminating, impending, imposing, infuriating, ingratiating, inquiring, insinuating, insulting, intending, interesting, intoxicating, inviting, irritating, isolating, limiting, lounging, maddening, marauding, mincing, misleading, missing, mucking, nauseating, neighboring, niggling, nipping, numbing, obliging, outstanding, overarching, overpowering, overriding, patronizing, peddling, penetrating, persevering, piddling, piffling, pitying, practicing, preceding, prepossessing, presuming, prevailing, promising, protecting, provoking, prying, puling, pushing, puzzling, rambling, raring, redeeming, regarding, respecting, retiring, revolting, revolving, rewarding, ripping, rollicking, roving, scathing, scorching, searching, seeing, selling, shocking, shuddering, shuffling, sickening, skinking, slighting, smacking, smashing, soothing, sopping, sounding, sporting, stabbing, staggering, startling, stifling, strapping, striking, stunning

Usage

Word found in Array English

3. Etymology of the English suffix -ing

Derivations in English

wilding, farthing, sweeting

Usage

Word found in Array English