English
bring
Bring comes from Middle English bryngen ‘to bring’, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *bringaną.
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*bringaną‘to bring’reconstructed
- Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*bringan‘to bring’reconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150bringan‘to bring’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500bryngen‘to bring’
- Englishearliest quotation 1689bring
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*bringaną‘to bring’reconstructed
- Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*bringan‘to bring’reconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150bringan‘to bring’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500bryngen‘to bring’
- Englishearliest quotation 1689bring
Earliest quotation: 1689, London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt: “It seems so preposterous a thing[…]that they do not…”
The story
From Middle English bryngen, from Old English bringan, from Proto-West Germanic *bringan, from Proto-Germanic *bringaną (‘to bring’), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenk-, possibly based on *bʰer-.
Linked words
through Proto-West Germanic *bringan ‘to bring’
Today it means
verb To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *bringaną / bring