ending

English

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Canada):

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• bad ending
• case ending
• double-ending
• Elam ending
• endingless
• fairy-tale ending
• fairytale ending
• feminine ending
• good beginning makes a good ending
• good ending
• happy ending
• harem ending
• Hollywood ending
• masculine ending
• nerve ending
• never-ending
• true ending
• world ending
• world-ending
• zero ending

Descendants

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

Translations

termination or conclusion

Armenian: ավարտ (hy) (avart), վախճան (hy) (vaxčan) Belarusian: заканчэ́нне n (zakančénnje) Bulgarian: край (bg) m (kraj), завършване (bg) n (zavǎršvane) Catalan: fi (ca) f, final (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 結束 / 结束 (zh) (jiéshù) Danish: slutning c, afslutning (da) c Dutch: beëindiging (nl) f Finnish: loppu (fi), loppuminen (fi), päätös (fi) French: fin (fr) f German: Ende (de) n, Ablauf (de) m, Beendigung (de) f Ido: konkluzo (io) Italian: terminazione (it) f, cessazione (it) f, fine (it) f, chiusura (it) f Japanese: 終わり (ja) (おわり, owari), 結末 (ja) (けつまつ, ketsumatsu), 結び (ja) (むすび, musubi) Korean: 종결(終結) (ko) (jonggyeol) Latin: exitus n, finis (la) m or f, exitus m, terminus (la) m, extremum n, peractio f, extremus m Macedonian: крај m (kraj), завр́шеток m (zavŕšetok), до́кажок m (dókažok) Maori: porotutukitanga Norman: finnissement m Norwegian: Bokmål: avslutning (no) m or f, ending m or f, endelse m, slutt m Nynorsk: avslutning Occitan: fin (oc) f, final (oc) m Portuguese: fim (pt) m, final (pt) m, término (pt) m, conclusão (pt) f, finalização (pt) f, terminação (pt) f Romanian: sfârșit (ro) n, încheiere (ro) f, final (ro) n Russian: заверше́ние (ru) n (zaveršénije), оконча́ние (ru) n (okončánije), коне́ц (ru) m (konéc) Spanish: finalización (es) f Ukrainian: заве́ршення n (zavéršennja), закі́нчення n (zakínčennja) Walloon: fén (wa) f, finixhmint (wa) m

last part of something

Armenian: վերջ (hy) (verǰ) Belarusian: канча́так m (kančátak), кане́ц m (kanjéc) Catalan: final (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 結局 / 结局 (zh) (jiéjú) Danish: ende (da) c Finnish: loppu (fi), loppuosa German: Ende (de) n Greek: κατάληξη (el) f (katálixi), πέρας (el) n (péras) Italian: termine (it) m, finale (it) m Ladino: fin f Latin: finis (la) m or f, terminus (la) m, extremus m, exitus m, extremum n, peractio f Maori: poronga Norwegian: Bokmål: ending m or f, endelse m, ende (no) m Portuguese: fim (pt) m, final (pt) m Romanian: sfârșit (ro) Russian: оконча́ние (ru) n (okončánije), коне́ц (ru) m (konéc) Spanish: final (es) m Ukrainian: закі́нчення n (zakínčennja), кіне́ць (uk) m (kinécʹ) Walloon: dibout (wa) m, coron (wa) m Yiddish: סוף m (sof)

grammar: last morpheme of a word — see termination

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Georgian: (please verify) დასასრული (dasasruli) Woiwurrung: (please verify) tendebik

Etymology 2

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.

Verb

ending

1. present participle and gerund of end

Anagrams

• Ningde, ginned

Chinese

Etymology

Borrowed from English ending.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): en¹ ding²

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: en¹ ding²
    • Cantonese Pinyin: en¹ ding²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɛːn⁵⁵ tɪŋ³⁵/

Noun

ending

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

References

• English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese

Icelandic

Etymology

From enda +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ending f (genitive singular endingar, nominative plural endingar)

1. durability
2. (grammar) ending, suffix

Declension

Declension of ending (feminine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ending	endingin	endingar	endingarnar
accusative	endingu	endinguna	endingar	endingarnar
dative	endingu	endingunni	endingum	endingunum
genitive	endingar	endingarinnar	endinga	endinganna

References

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

Middle English

Noun

ending

1. alternative form of endyng

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛnːɪŋ/, /ˈɛndɪŋ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋ
• Hyphenation: end‧ing

Noun

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

References

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From ende +‎ -ing.

Noun

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

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

References

• “ending” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.