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-lings

-lings suffix: forming adverbs, generally of condition or situation.

Suffix

-lings

  1. (UK, dialectal) forming adverbs, generally of condition or situation

Origin of -lings

From Middle English -linges, variant (with genitive -es) of Middle English -ling (adverbial suffix), equivalent to -ling + -s. Compare Dutch -lings (adverbial suffix), German -lings.

Questions about -lings

What does -lings mean?
-lings means forming adverbs, generally of condition or situation.
What part of speech is -lings?
-lings is a suffix.

Words near -lings in the dictionary

  1. -like
  2. -lim-
  3. -limnion
  4. -lin
  5. -ling
  6. -lings
  7. -lite
  8. -lith
  9. -lithic
  10. -lock
  11. -log

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