-end

• -and

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1. Forming nouns denoting patients or recipients of actions.

   addend, subtrahend, dividend

• (a patient): -and, -ee, -ed

• (a patient): -er, -or, -ing

• DEN, DNE, Den, Den., NDE, NED, Ned, den, ned

From Middle High German -end, from Old High German -endi, -enti, -anti (present participle ending), from Proto-Germanic *-andz (present participle ending). Cognate with Old English -ende (present participle ending). More at -and, -ing.

• IPA^(key): /ənt/, IPA^(key): /ənd-/

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1. A suffix forming the present participle of German verbs, analogous to English -ing.

   Weinend rief sie bei mir an. ― Crying, she called out with me.

   Die tanzenden Mädchen sind hübsch. ― The dancing girls are pretty.

• IPA^(key): [ɛnd]

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1. (personal suffix, archaic) Added to verbs to form the future tense.
2. (instantaneous suffix) Added to a stem to form a verb with an instantaneous meaning.

   örvend (“to rejoice at something”)

• (both senses) Harmonic variants:

  -and is added to back vowel verbs

  -end is added to front vowel verbs

• -and, -nd

Taken from the present participle form of verbs. More at -ende

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1. suffix denoting the agent of an action

   frēond "friend" (originally, "one who loves", "lover"); fēond (“fiend, one who hates”)

   berend (“bearer, carrier”)

   berēafigend (“despoiler, robber”)

   costiġend (“tempter”)