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-Ling
Webster's Dictionary
(1):
An adverbial suffix; as, darkling, flatling.
(2):
A noun suffix, commonly having a diminutive or a depreciatory force; as in duckling, gosling, hireling, fosterling, firstling, underling.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for '-Ling'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/-/-ling.html. 1828.