## Etymology
From un- ('not') + ending, from end, from Old English ende ('end, conclusion'), from Proto-Germanic *andijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos ('front, forehead').

## AI Etymology
Unending comes from un- ('not') + ending, from end, from Old English ende ('end, conclusion'), from Proto-Germanic *andijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos ('front, forehead'). The historical chain includes Old English un-, Old English ende, and Proto-Germanic *andijaz. The quoted older senses, "not", "end, conclusion", and "front, forehead", supply the semantic anchors for unending. The formation is best read as compound and borrowed: the word unending carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a adj, "having or seeming to have no end". English derivatives include unendingly; related English forms include end, ending, and endless. The result is a adj whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

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