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learnling

noun

Etymology

From learn + -ling. Compare West Frisian learling (“pupil”), German Lehrling (“apprentice”), Norwegian lærling (“trainee; apprentice”).

  1. inherited from *lizaną✻
  2. inherited from *liʀnōn✻
  3. inherited from leornian — “to learn", rarely also, "to teach”
  4. inherited from lernen — “to learn", also, "to teach"”
  5. suffixed as learnling — “learn + ling”

Definitions

  1. One who learns

    One who learns; pupil; student; apprentice

    • Perchance in upland pastures there may stray Some learnling of the elder fold, to teach [...]

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA