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noun the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge
noun profound scholarly knowledge
verb gain knowledge or skills
originFrom Middle English lernyng, lernynge, from Old English leornung (“learning, study”), from Proto-West Germanic *liʀnungu (“learning”), equivalent to learn + -ing. Cognate with Old Saxon lernunga, German Lernung.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0