To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
I began playing the piano at the age of five.
To come into existence.
Vast chain of being! which from God began.
Beginning; start.
In prayer, in the light, I see my kin / I touch my tree, my roots, my begin
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 E...
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