EARN
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earn¹
- /ɜːn/ UK
- /ɝn/ US
- /ɛːrn/ Early Modern
- /ɛrn/ Early Modern
Sounds like ern, erne, urn · Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)n
Where it comes from
From Middle English ernen, from Old English earnian, from Proto-West Germanic *aʀanōn, from Proto-Germanic *azanōną. This verb is denominal from the noun *azaniz (“harvest”).
verb earns · earning · earned · earnt
- To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work. You can have the s'mores: you earned them, clearing the walkway of snow so well.
- To receive payment for work or for a role or position held (regardless of whether effort was applied or whether the remuneration is deserved or commensurate). He earns seven million dollars a year as CEO. My bank account is only earning one percent interest.
- To receive payment for work. Now that you are earning, you can start paying me rent.
- To cause (someone) to receive payment or reward. My CD earns me six percent!
- To achieve by being worthy of. to earn a spot in the top 20
earn²
Where it comes from
Probably either:
* from Middle English erne, ernen (“to coagulate, congeal”) (chiefly South Midlands) [and other forms], a metathetic variant of rennen (“to run; to coagulate, congeal”), from Old English rinnan (“to run”) (with the variants iernan, irnan) and Old Norse rinna (“to move quickly, run; of liquid: to flow, run; to melt”), both from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to move, stir; to rise, spring”); or
* a back-formation from earning (“(Britain regional, archaic) rennet”).
verb earns · earning · earned
- To curdle (milk), especially in the cheesemaking process.
- Of milk: to curdle, especially in the cheesemaking process.
earn³
Where it comes from
A variant of yearn.
verb earns · earning · earned
- To strongly long or yearn (for something or to do something). And ever as he rode, his hart did earne / To prove his puissance in battell brave.
- To grieve. [M]y manly heart doth erne. […] Boy, briſsle thy Courage vp: For Falſtaffe hee is dead, and wee muſt erne therefore.
earn⁴
noun earns
- Alternative form of erne They gleamed on many a dusky tarn , Haunted by the lonely earn
EARN⁵
proper noun
- Initialism of European Academic and Research Network: a former computer network connecting universities and research institutions across Europe.European Academic and Research Network
Earn⁶
Where it comes from
From Scottish Gaelic Èireann, genitive singular of Èirinn (“Ireland”), closely related to the river name Erne.
proper noun
- A river in Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland, which flows into the tidal River Tay.
