earn

== English == === Etymology 1 === 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”). ==== Pronunciation ==== (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ûrn, IPA(key): /ɜːn/ (US) enPR: ûrn, IPA(key): /ɝn/ (Early Modern) IPA(key): /ɛːrn/, /ɛrn/ Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n Homophones: ern, erne, urn ==== Verb ==== earn (third-person singular simple present earns, present participle earning, simple past and past participle earned or (chiefly UK) earnt) (transitive) To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work. (transitive) 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). (intransitive) To receive payment for work. (transitive) To cause (someone) to receive payment or reward. (transitive) To achieve by being worthy of. ===== Usage notes ===== The verb has senses of "get because deserving" and "get whether deserving or not", but because to many ears it connotes the former meaning, writers and speakers sometimes resist using it for the latter meaning, choosing instead synonyms such as get, take in, or rake in. ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Synonyms ===== (gain through applied effort or work): deserve, merit, garner, win ((transitive) receive payment for work): get, take in, rake in ((intransitive) receive payment for work): rake it in (cause someone to receive payment or reward): yield, make, generate, render ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === 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 ==== earn (third-person singular simple present earns, present participle earning, simple past and past participle earned) (British, dialectal) (transitive, archaic) To curdle (milk), especially in the cheesemaking process. Synonyms: run, (Northern England, Scotland) yearn (intransitive, obsolete) Of milk: to curdle, especially in the cheesemaking process. === Etymology 3 === A variant of yearn. ==== Verb ==== earn (third-person singular simple present earns, present participle earning, simple past and past participle earned) (transitive, obsolete) To strongly long or yearn (for something or to do something). (intransitive, obsolete) To grieve. === Etymology 4 === ==== Noun ==== earn (plural earns) Alternative form of erne === References === === Anagrams === nare, rean, Near, eRNA, Rane, near, Arne, Nera, erna == Middle English == === Noun === earn (Early Middle English) alternative form of ern (“eagle”) == Old English == === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *arnu. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /æ͜ɑrn/, [æ͜ɑrˠn] === Noun === earn m eagle ==== Declension ==== Strong a-stem: ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: ern, eerne, eren, erne, eron, ærn, earn (Early Middle English), arn, aryn (Kent or Northern)English: erneMiddle Scots: ern, eyrne, airneScots: earn, ern, erne == West Frisian == === Etymology === From Old Frisian *ern, from Proto-West Germanic *arnu, from Proto-Germanic *arnuz, from Proto-Germanic *arô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃érō (“eagle”). Cognates include North Frisian Aarn, iarn, jarn. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɪə̯n/ === Noun === earn c (plural earnen, diminutive earntsje) eagle (figuratively) miser ==== Further reading ==== “earn”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011