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-ling
-ling 1suff.1. One connected with: worldling.2. One having a specified quality: underling.3. One that is young, small, or inferior: duckling.
[Middle English, from Old English.]
-ling 2suff. In a specified direction, manner, or condition: darkling.
[Middle English, from Old English.]-ling suffix forming nouns 1. often derogatory a person or thing belonging to or associated with the group, activity, or quality specified: nestling; underling. 2. used as a diminutive: duckling. [Old English -ling, of Germanic origin; related to Icelandic -lingr, Gothic -lings]
-ling suffix forming adverbs in a specified condition, manner, or direction: darkling; sideling. [Old English -ling, adverbial suffix]ling1 (lɪŋ)
n., pl. (esp. collectively) ling, (esp. for kinds or species) lings. 1. an elongated, codlike marine food fish, Molva molva, of Greenland and N Europe. 2. the burbot. 3. any of various other elongated food fishes. [1250–1300; Middle English ling, lenge; akin to early Dutch linghe, lenghe, Old Norse langa, and to long1] ling2 (lɪŋ)
n. the heather, Calluna vulgaris. [1325–75; Middle English < Old Norse lyng] -ling1 , a suffix of nouns, often pejorative, denoting one concerned with (hireling; underling) or forming a diminutive (princeling; duckling). [Middle English, Old English, c. Old Saxon, Old High German -ling, Old Norse -lingr, Gothic -liggs; see -le, -ing1] -ling2 , an adverbial suffix expressing direction, position, or state: darkling. [Middle English, Old English; adv. use of gradational variant of lang long1] ling. linguistics. EncyclopediaSeelingThesaurusSeediminutive |