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Where does “ahtunga” come from?

ahtunga (Old High German) comes from Old High German -unga, from Proto-Germanic -ungō — -ing, -ion. "Forms gerund nouns from verbs.".

Ancestry of “ahtunga”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old High German-unga-ing
2Proto-Germanic-ungō-ing, -ion. "Forms gerund nouns from verbs."
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