English
learn one's place
learn (“to be made aware”) + one's place (“one's current position in life”)
Formed from learn ‘to be made aware’ + one's place ‘one's current position in life’
Proto-Indo-European *leys- ‘track, furrow, trace’
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Proto-Germanic *lizaną ‘to know’
Proto-West Germanic *liʀnōn ‘to learn’
Old English leornian ‘to learn’
Middle English lernen ‘to learn’
English learn
Today it means
verb To be made aware, by experience, of one's inferior rank or status.
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