-ing Words in Other Languages
English words constructed from verbs with the ending -ing are sometimes borrowed into other languages. In some cases they become pseudo-anglicisms, taking on new meanings or uses which are not found in English. For instance:
- camping means "campsite" in many languages (including Bulgarian, Dutch, French, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, and Spanish);
- parking means "car park" or "parking lot" in many languages (including Bulgarian, Dutch, French, Polish, Russian, and Spanish);
- lifting means "facelift" in many languages (including Bulgarian, French, German, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Hebrew, and Spanish);
- (le) shampooing means "shampoo" in French;
- footing has been used to mean "jogging" in some languages (including French and Italian).
Some Germanic languages (including Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, and Icelandic) have a native -ing suffix, used mainly to form verbal action nouns, though generally not as productively as in English. For details, see the Wiktionary entry for -ing.
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