Etymology

beginning

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Today it means: The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states. Full definition →

Middle English biginning
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beginning · noun1

  1. Middle English · inherited frombiginning
  2. English todaybeginning

From Middle English biginning, beginninge, beginnunge, equivalent to begin + -ing.

beginning · verb, adjective2

  1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*biginnaną“to begin”
  2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*biginnandz
  3. Old English · inherited from*beginnende
  4. Middle English · inherited frombegynnyng
  5. English todaybeginning

From Middle English begynnyng, bygynnynge, From Old English *beginnende (attested only as Old English onginnende), from Proto-Germanic *biginnandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *biginnaną (“to begin”), equivalent to begin + -ing.

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