begin
verb
- to start an activity
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /bɪˈɡɪn/ / /bəˈɡɪn/ / /biˈɡɪn/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English beginnen, from Old English beginnan (“to begin”), from Proto-West Germanic *biginnan, from Proto-Germanic *biginnaną (“to begin”), from be- + base verb *ginnaną also found in Old English onginnan.
- Beginning; start.
“In prayer, in the light, I see my kin / I touch my tree, my roots, my begin”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English beginnen, from Old English beginnan (“to begin”), from Proto-West Germanic *biginnan, from Proto-Germanic *biginnaną (“to begin”), from be- + base verb *ginnaną also found in Old English onginnan.
- To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
“I began playing the piano at the age of five.”
“Now that everyone is here, we should begin the presentation.”
- To come into existence.
“Vast chain of being! which from God began.”