# ending
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɛndɪŋ/
* Rhymes: -ɛndɪŋ
* Audio (Canada):(file)

### 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)
* A termination or conclusion.
* 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.
* (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

##### Translations

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### 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
* present participle and gerund of end

### Anagrams

* Ningde, ginned

## Chinese
### Etymology

Borrowed from English ending.

### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): en$^1$ ding$^2$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: en$^1$ ding$^2$
*** Cantonese Pinyin: en$^1$ ding$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /ɛːn⁵⁵ tɪŋ³⁵/

### Noun

ending
* (Hong Kong Cantonese) ending (end) (Classifier: 個／个 c)
* (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: /ˈɛn.tiŋk/
* Rhymes: -ɛntiŋk

### Noun

ending f (genitive singular endingar, nominative plural endingar)
* durability
* (grammar) ending, suffix

#### Declension
### References

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

## Middle English
### Noun

ending
* 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: /ˈɛnːɪŋ/, /ˈɛndɪŋ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪŋ
* Hyphenation: end‧ing

### Noun

ending f or m (definite singular endinga or endingen, indefinite plural endinger, definite plural endingene)
* the act of ending; finishing
    Synonym: endelse
* (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.)
* (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 linjethe 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)
* (grammar) ending (last part of a word)

### References

* “ending” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.