-ings

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-ings (or -ingas) is a suffix, used in the Legendarium to denote such people that were the descendants of a common fore-father.

Examples

Etymology

Old English -ing, -ung (derived from Proto-Germanic *unga): Forming derivatives of masculine nouns with sense of "belonging to, son of".^[1]^[2]

References

↑ "-ing" at Online Etymology Dictionary (accessed 6 January 2010)
↑ "-ing" at Wiktionary(accessed 6 January 2010)

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Suffixes