資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

-ling \-ling\ (-l[i^]ng). [AS. -ling.]
   A noun suffix, commonly having a diminutive or a depreciatory
   force; as in duckling, gosling, hireling, fosterling,
   firstling, underling.

-ling \-ling\
   An adverbial suffix; as, darkling, flatling.