yearning

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English yerning, from Old English ġierning, ġierninge. Equivalent to the gerund (yearn + -ing). yearn comes from Proto-West Germanic *girnijan, from Proto-Germanic *girnijaną, from *gernaz (“eager, willing”) + *-janą, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to yearn for”). By surface analysis, yearn +‎ ing.

Noun

yearning (plural yearnings)

  1. A wistful or melancholy longing.
    She had a yearning to see her long-lost sister again.
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Verb

yearning

  1. present participle and gerund of yearn

Etymology 2

PIE word
*ḱóm

From earlier yerning, from Middle English yernyng, erning, renning. From Old English rynning and gerunnen, geurnen (“run together, coagulated, curdled”), past participles of gerinnan, geirnan, respectively. Influenced by Middle English yern (“to (cause to) coagulate or curdle”), Old English iernan (“to run, flow”), metathesized forms derived from the same origin. From verbal prefix ge- + rinnan (“to run”). First element is from Proto-West Germanic *ga-, from Proto-Germanic *ga-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“with, by”); second element is from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃r̥-néw-ti, from *h₃er- (“to move”). Doublet of rennet, run.

Noun

yearning (countable and uncountable, plural yearnings)

  1. (Scotland, archaic) rennet (an enzyme to curdle milk in order to make cheese).

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