Etymology

bettering

B3E1T1T1E1R1I1N1G2

Today it means: improvement Full definition →

Middle English beterynge
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Middle English · inherited frombeterynge
  2. English todaybettering

From Middle English beterynge; equivalent to better + -ing.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.