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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "alex_lycos" <altamix@...>
>
> > I was wondering abozut the germanic gerundium which is "-end" "-
ing" (
> > is there some more suffixes?)
>
> They have fallen together in English, but originally nouns of
action were formed with <-ung>/<-ing> only, while <-ende> (= OHG -
anti, ON -andi, Goth -ands) was the present participle suffix. The
latter is related to Latin participles in <-ent-> (< PIE *-ont-/*-n.t-
), but not to the Latin gerund.
>
>
> Piotr
The English gerund in -ing has a sideform in -in' . I was wondering:
does this sideform occur only in those grammatical functions of the
gerund where it stands for the old present participle (and thus could
be claimed to be derived directly from -end-)? My limited non-native
intuition can't settle this matter.
Torsten