Where does “foreseeing” come from?
Foreseeing derives from Middle English -ing added to foresee, continuing Old English -ing, from Proto-Germanic -ungō, a suffix forming abstract nouns and gerunds from verb stems.
foreseeing (English): present participle of foresee; The act by which...
Definitions
- present participle of foresee; The act by which...
Ancestry of “foreseeing”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | -ing | Used to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns,... |
| 2 | Old English | -ing | Forming nouns from verbs, indicating action,... |
| 3 | Old English | -tūn | — |
| 4 | Old English | tūn | enclosure, yard; place; dwelling |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | tūn | fence |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | tūną | fence; enclosure |
| 7 | Gaulish | dunum | fort; hill, hillfort |
| 8 | Proto-Celtic | dūnom | stronghold, rampart |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰewh₂- | smoke; mist, haze |
Words derived from “foreseeing”