Etymology

learning

learn·ing
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Today it means: An act in which something is learned. Full definition →

Middle English lernyng ← Old English leornung ← Proto-West Germanic *liʀnungu
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The story

  1. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*liʀnungu“learning”
  2. Old English · inherited fromleornung“learning, study”
  3. Middle English · inherited fromlernyng
  4. English todaylearning

From Middle English lernyng, lernynge, from Old English leornung (“learning, study”), from Proto-West Germanic *liʀnungu (“learning”), equivalent to learn + -ing. Cognate with Old Saxon lernunga, German Lernung.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.