## Meanings
1. To get money in return for work that you do.
2. To get something you deserve because of your effort or qualities.
3. To produce money as profit or interest.

## Examples
- She earns a good salary as an engineer.
- He earned everyone's respect through years of hard work.
- My savings account earns very little interest these days.

## Derived Forms
- earnable
- earner
- earnful
- earnings
- earnout
- hard-earned
- nonearning
- outearn
- outourn
- overearn
- re-earn
- reearn

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *h₃er-
- Root: erne
- Root: rinnan
- Root: rinna
- Root: *rinnaną

## Etymology
Probably either: * from Middle English erne, ernen (“to coagulate, congeal”) (chiefly South Midlands) [and other forms], a metathetic variant of rennen (“to run; to coagulate, congeal”), from Old English rinnan (“to run”) (with the variants iernan, irnan) and Old Norse rinna (“to move quickly, run; of liquid: to flow, run; to melt”), both from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to move, stir; to rise, spring”); or * a back-formation from earning (“(Britain regional, archaic) rennet”).

## AI Etymology
Earn: Probably either: from Middle English erne, ernen (“to coagulate, congeal”) (chiefly South Midlands) [and other forms], a metathetic variant of rennen (“to run; to coagulate, congeal”), from Old English rinnan (“to run”) (with the variants iernan, irnan) and Old Norse rinna (“to move quickly, run; of liquid: to flow, run; to melt”), both from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to move, stir; to rise, spring”); or a back-formation from earning (“(Britain regional, archaic) rennet”).

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