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The infinitive form of the verb is used as gerund, e.g., Zwemmen is gezond. Since Afrikaans has by and large lost explicit morphological marking of the infinitive form of the verb, verb stems are used as gerunds, e.g., Swem is gesond .
When used as a gerund or present participle, the -ing form is a non-finite verb, which behaves like a (finite) verb in that it forms a verb phrase, taking typical verb dependents and modifiers such as objects and adverbs. That verb phrase is then used within a larger sentence, with the function of an adjective or adverb (in the case of the ...
Slavic "gerunds" can be translated into English with -ing verbal forms, but those are not gerunds. For that reason, I removed my reference to R. Alexander's BCS grammar, as it could be misguiding, and there's the same sort of mistake in Wade's Russian grammar; the mistake is implicit in Sussex-Cubberley p.401-402.
English uses many open compound nouns, a large subclass of which, by convention in accepted English orthography, are not closed up (not solidified) and are sometimes optionally hyphenated in attributive position (that is, when functioning as a noun adjunct).