teaching

Meanings

Noun

• Something taught by a religious or philosophical authority.
• The profession of educating people; the activity that a teacher does when s/he traches.

Verb

• Present participle of teach

Origin

• From Middle English teching, techinge, from Old English tǣċing, tǣċung, equivalent to teach + -ing.
• From Middle English techinge, techynge, techende, techand, from Old English tǣċende, from Proto-Germanic *taikijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *taikijaną, equivalent to teach + -ing.