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yearning en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈjɝnɪŋ/ (General-American)
  • /ˈjɜːnɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

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.

Meanings

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

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Relateds

yearn

Translations (59)

pt saudade (wistful or melancholy longing) · ja 憧れ (wistful or melancholy longing) · sv längtan (wistful or melancholy longing) · fr envie (wistful or melancholy longing) · he כִּיסּוּפִים (wistful or melancholy longing) · cs stesk (wistful or melancholy longing) · it voglia (wistful or melancholy longing) · sq gullmi (wistful or melancholy longing) · ru стремле́ние (wistful or melancholy longing) · ru скло́нность (wistful or melancholy longing) · grc πόθος (wistful or melancholy longing) · it anelito (wistful or melancholy longing) · pam dulap (wistful or melancholy longing) · ar شَوْق (wistful or melancholy longing) · cs tesknění (wistful or melancholy longing) · cs stýskání (wistful or melancholy longing) · de Sehnsucht (wistful or melancholy longing) · grc ἐπιθυμία (wistful or melancholy longing) · ka წყურვილი (wistful or melancholy longing) · sh čežnja (wistful or melancholy longing) · fi ikävä (wistful or melancholy longing) · es anhelo (wistful or melancholy longing) · mi poreirewa (wistful or melancholy longing) · tr özlem (wistful or melancholy longing) · de großes Verlangen (wistful or melancholy longing) · cmn 憧憬 (wistful or melancholy longing) · ro dor (wistful or melancholy longing) · ro năzuință (wistful or melancholy longing) · fi kaipuu (wistful or melancholy longing) · sa छन्दस् (wistful or melancholy longing) · es cuita (wistful or melancholy longing) · ro dorință arzătoare (wistful or melancholy longing) · ru тоска́ (wistful or melancholy longing) · tr hasret (wistful or melancholy longing) · izh kaiho (wistful or melancholy longing) · ca anhel (wistful or melancholy longing) · da længsel (wistful or melancholy longing) · eo sopiro (wistful or melancholy longing) · hy կարոտ (wistful or melancholy longing) · it bramosia (wistful or melancholy longing) · it desiderio (wistful or melancholy longing) · it brama (wistful or melancholy longing) · ko 동경 (wistful or melancholy longing) · grc ὄρεξις (wistful or melancholy longing) · fi kaipaus (wistful or melancholy longing) · ru тя́га (wistful or melancholy longing) · bg жадуване (wistful or melancholy longing) · es añoranza (wistful or melancholy longing) · el πόθος (wistful or melancholy longing) · bg копнеж (wistful or melancholy longing) · it struggimento (wistful or melancholy longing) · fr aspiration (wistful or melancholy longing) · it nostalgia (wistful or melancholy longing) · pl tęsknota (wistful or melancholy longing) · tr iştiyak (wistful or melancholy longing) · eo dezirego (wistful or melancholy longing) · txb ñyās (wistful or melancholy longing) · la dēsīderium (wistful or melancholy longing) · izh ikävä (wistful or melancholy longing)

yearning en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈjɝnɪŋ/ (General-American)
  • /ˈjɜːnɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

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.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of yearn
    form of yearn
    • I've got this burning, yearning, yearning / Feeling inside me / Ooh, deep inside me / And it hurts so bad 1964, “Where Did Our Love Go?”, performed by The Supremes:

yearning en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • (US) audio
  • /ˈjɝnɪŋ/ (General-American)
  • /ˈjɜːnɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

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.

Meanings

  1. (Scotland, archaic, countable, uncountable) Rennet (an enzyme to curdle milk in order to make cheese).
    • Mrs. MacClarty then took down a bottle of rennet, or yearning, as she called it. 1808, Elizabeth Hamilton, Cottagers of Glenburnie:

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Relateds

yearn · rennet · earn