Where does “-unge” come from?

-unge (Old Frisian) comes from Proto-Germanic -ungō — -ing, -ion. "Forms gerund nouns from verbs.".

Ancestry of “-unge”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanic-ungō-ing, -ion. "Forms gerund nouns from verbs."
Every word from Proto-Germanic -ungō
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