different between desirous vs yearning
desirous
English
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French desirrous, from desirrer + -ous.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??za????s/, /d??za???s/
- Rhymes: -a????s
Adjective
desirous (comparative more desirous, superlative most desirous)
- Feeling desire; eagerly wishing; eager to obtain.
- Synonyms: solicitous, covetous
Translations
Anagrams
- eurosids, siderous
Middle English
Etymology
From Old French desirrous; equivalent to desiren +? -ous.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??zi??ru?s/, /d??zi?rus/, /d??-/, /di-/
Adjective
desirous
- desirous, experiencing desire
Descendants
- English: desirous
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yearning
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?j?n??/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?j??n??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)n??
- Hyphenation: yearn?ing
Etymology 1
From Middle English yerning, from Old English ?ierning, ?ierninge. Equivalent to the gerund (yearn + -ing). yearn comes from Proto-West Germanic *girnijan, from Proto-Germanic *girnijan?, from *gernaz (“eager, willing”) + *-jan?, from Proto-Indo-European *??er- (“to yearn for”).
Noun
yearning (plural yearnings)
- A wistful or melancholy longing.
- She had a yearning to see her long-lost sister again.
Related terms
- yearn
Translations
Verb
yearning
- Present participle and gerund of yearn.
Etymology 2
From earlier yerning, from Middle English yernyng, erning, renning. From Old English rynning and gerunnen, geurnen (“run together, coagulated, curdled”), past participles of gerinnan, geirnan, respectively. Influenced by Middle English yern (“to (cause to) coagulate or curdle”), Old English iernan (“to run, flow”), metathesized forms derived from the same origin. From verbal prefix ge- + rinnan (“to run”). First element is from Proto-West Germanic *ga-, from Proto-Germanic *ga-, from Proto-Indo-European *?óm (“with, by”); second element is from Proto-Germanic *rinnan?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?r?-néw-ti, from *h?er- (“to move”). Doublet of rennet, run.
Noun
yearning (countable and uncountable, plural yearnings)
- (Scotland, archaic) rennet (an enzyme to curdle milk in order to make cheese).
Related terms
- yearn
- earn
- rennet
Anagrams
- renaying
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