begin

Meanings

Verb

• To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
• To be in the first stage of some situation
• To come into existence.

Noun

• Beginning; start.

Related

Similar words

• commence
• initiate
• start

Origin

• From Middle English beginnen, from Old English beginnan ("to begin"), from Proto-Germanic *biginnaną ("to begin") (q.v.), from be- + base verb *ginnaną also found in Old English onginnan.