The story
- Middle English · inherited frombegynner
- English todaybeginner
From Middle English begynner, equivalent to begin + -er. Cognate with West Frisian begjinner (“beginner”), Dutch beginner (“beginner”), Low German begünner (“beginner”), Danish nybegynder (“beginner, novice”, literally “new-beginner”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.