Word: asking
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: ask
ing
Definition: The marriage banns.
Morphemes:
Affix: ask
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.
Affix: -ing
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Forming derivative nouns (originally masculine), with the sense ‘son of, belonging to’, as in placenames, patronymics or diminutives; -ite.