English
learning
Learning comes from Old English leornung ‘learning, study’, and goes back to Proto-West Germanic *liʀnungu.
- Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*liʀnungureconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150leornung‘learning’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500lernyng
- Englishearliest quotation 2007learning
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*liʀnungureconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150leornung‘learning’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500lernyng
- Englishearliest quotation 2007learning
Earliest quotation: 2007, Stuart Elliott, Online Experiment for Print Magazine: “We’ll take the learnings and apply them to the…”
Formed from learn + -ing
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
Every English word from Proto-West Germanic *liʀnungu
Today it means
noun An act in which something is learned.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-West Germanic *liʀnungu / learning