Re: [tied] -leben/-lev/-löv and -ung-

From: tgpedersen
Message: 50714
Date: 2007-12-05

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
>
> Any relarion between -ung and -ing as a gentilicio (to
> use the Spanish word --I don't know any English
> equivalent, e.g. ethnic or family suffix)? Apologies
> if you already answered this and I missed it

It's identical to its use in placenames, AFAIK; the places were named
as the places of the peoples of the same name.


Torsten