supporting

tukeminen

kantava

kannustava, tukeva That supports.
(present participle of)
That which supports something else; a support.
1847, Walter Henry Medhurst, A Dissertation on the Theology of the Chinese (page 252)

But supposing that heaven had a Lord, then all included in its overspreadings and supportings, throughout the myriad of states, and within the four seas, would invariably be under the government of Heaven's Lord (..)

(..) the pumps could he installed at once on the completion of the pump-house supportings.