ending

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛndɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɛndɪŋ

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From Middle English endyng, endinge, endunge, from Old English endung, ġeendung (“ending”), equivalent to end +‎ -ing. Cognate with Dutch ending (“ending”), German Endung (“ending”).

ending (plural endings)

1. A termination or conclusion.
2. The last part of something.

   The book has a happy ending.

   The film has an unexpected ending.

   • 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 25:

     Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved.

3. (grammar) The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -s in "dogs").

   Spanish verb forms have different endings depending on the tense, mood and person.

   • 2002, Ilse Wischer, Gabriele Diewald, New Reflections on Grammaticalization, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 45:

     Using diachronic evidence from Swedish, I will show that inflectional endings may be maintained as “less cumulative” inflections, or even degrammaticalize into a derivational suffix or a clitic.

• (termination or conclusion): conclusion, end, termination
• (last part of something): end, finale
• (grammar): termination, suffix

• → Cantonese: ending
• → Japanese: エンディング (endingu)
• → Korean: 엔딩 (ending)

From Middle English ending, endyng, endende, from Old English endiende, from Proto-Germanic *andijōndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *andijōną (“to end”), equivalent to end +‎ -ing.

ending

1. present participle and gerund of end

• Ningde, ginned

Borrowed from English ending.

ending

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) ending (end) (Classifier: 個／个 c)
2. (Hong Kong Cantonese) ending theme; end title sequence (Classifier: 首 c)

• English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese

From enda +‎ -ing.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛn.tiŋk/
• Rhymes: -ɛntiŋk

ending f (genitive singular endingar, nominative plural endingar)

1. durability
2. (grammar) ending, suffix

• “ending” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

ending

1. alternative form of endyng

ende +‎ -ing, first part from Old Norse endi, endir (“end, conclusion”), from Proto-Germanic *andijaz (“end”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos (“front, forehead”), from *h₂ent- (“face, forehead, front”), perhaps from *h₂en- (“on, onto”). Last part from Old Norse -ingr m, -ingi m, -ing f, from Proto-Germanic *-ingō, *-ungō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛnːɪŋ/, /ˈɛndɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋ
• Hyphenation: end‧ing

ending f or m (definite singular endinga or endingen, indefinite plural endinger, definite plural endingene)

1. the act of ending; finishing

   Synonym: endelse

2. (grammar) an ending (the last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form)

   Synonym: endelse

   • 1877, Arne Garborg, Den ny-norske Sprog- og Nationalitetsbevægelse, page 137:

     modernisasjon (bortkastelsen av de mange endinger etc.)

     modernization (the removal of the many endings, etc.)

3. (poetry) the last syllable in a verse line
   • 2008, Kurt Sweeney, Kjegler:

     sensibilitetens øks styrer diktene – med makt tvinger den fram mannlig, trykksterk ending i hver linje

     the ax of sensibility controls the poems - with force it forces a masculine, powerful ending in each line

• “ending” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “ending” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From ende +‎ -ing.

ending f (definite singular endinga, indefinite plural endingar, definite plural endingane)

1. (grammar) ending (last part of a word)

• “ending” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.