earn

Meanings

Verb

• To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work.
• To receive payment for work.
• To receive payment for work.
• To cause (someone) to receive payment or reward.
• To achieve by being worthy of.
• To curdle (milk), especially in the cheesemaking process.
• Of milk: to curdle, espcially in the cheesemaking process.
• To strongly long or yearn (for something or to do something).
• To grieve.

Noun

• Alternative of erne

Related

Similar words

• deserve, merit, garner, win
• yield, make, generate, render

Origin

• From Middle English ernen, from Old English earnian, from Proto-West Germanic *aʀanōn, from Proto-Germanic *azanōną.
• Probably either:
• from Middle English erne, ernen , a metathetic variant of rennen, from Old English rinnen (with the variants iernan, irnan) and Old Norse rinna, both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er-; or
• a .
• A variant of yearn.