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yearning

noun
/ˈjɝnɪŋ/US/ˈjɜːnɪŋ/UK

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.

  1. derived from *h₃r̥-néw-ti✻
  2. derived from *rinnaną✻
  3. derived from *ḱóm✻
  4. derived from *ga-✻
  5. derived from *ga-✻
  6. inherited from rynning
  7. inherited from yernyng

Definitions

  1. A wistful or melancholy longing.

    • She had a yearning to see her long-lost sister again.

  2. present participle and gerund of yearn

    • I've got this burning, yearning, yearning / Feeling inside me / Ooh, deep inside me / And it hurts so bad

  3. 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at yearning. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at yearning. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at yearning

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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