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English word beginning comes from Old English (ca. 450-1100) onginnan (To begin. To undertake, attempt.), Dutch ontginnen (To develop.), Proto-Germanic *ginnaną, Proto-Germanic *bi- (By, at; a general locative prefix.), Old Saxon andginnan (To begin.), Proto-Germanic *ginnaną
onginnan (Old English)
To begin. To undertake, attempt.
ontginnen (Dutch)
To develop.
*ginnaną (Proto-Germanic)
*bi- (Proto-Germanic)
By, at; a general locative prefix.
andginnan (Old Saxon)
To begin.
*ginnaną (Proto-Germanic)
*biginnaną (Proto-Germanic)
To begin.
beginnan (Old English)
(rare) to begin.
beginnen (Middle English)
begin (English)
(ambitransitive) To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.. (intransitive) To be in the first stage of some situation. (intransitive) To come into existence. (nonstandard) Beginning; start.
beginning (English)
(informal) Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing. (uncountable) 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.. That which begins or originates something; the first cause. That which is begun; a rudiment or element.. [...]