English

beginning

/bɪˈɡɪn.ɪŋ/
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.

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    Origin

    Etymology 1

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

    Etymology 2

    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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    • inheritedMiddle Englishbiginning
    • surface analysisEnglishbegin “To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.”
    • suffixEnglish-ing “As true nouns.”
      • inheritedMiddle English-ynge
        • inheritedOld English-ung
        • inheritedOld English-ende
      • inheritedMiddle English-yng
        • inheritedOld English-ing “belonging to”
    • inheritedMiddle Englishbegynnyng
      • inheritedOld English*beginnende
        • inheritedProto-Germanic*biginnandz
          • derivedProto-Germanic*biginnaną “to begin”

    Related: Old English onginnende

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