Where does “coming” come from?

Coming comes from English come, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European gʷem-, meaning to go or arrive, combined with the Old English participial suffix -ing.

coming (English): present participle of come; The act of arriving;...

Definitions

  1. present participle of come; The act of arriving;...

Ancestry of “coming”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishcoming

Words derived from “coming

Every word from Middle English coming
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