Other forms: earrings
An earring is a piece of jewelry that hangs from the side of your head. Gold earrings, a single earring, lose an earring.
The earlobe is used because it has no cartilage, so it heals in weeks where a cartilage piercing takes months and can go badly wrong. Earrings are among the oldest ornaments known, found on bodies more than five thousand years old.
1nounearringAn ornament worn on the ear.
“She lost one gold earring on the dance floor.”
earring is an ornament.
Also accepted in games: earrings
Old English earhring is ear plus ring — the compound has been in English from the beginning.
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂ew-
Proto-West Germanic
*auʀahring
Old English
ēarhring — ear-ring
Middle English
erering
English, today
earring
From Middle English erering, from Old English ēarhring (“ear-ring”), from Proto-West Germanic auʀahring, equivalent to ear + ring. Cognate with West Frisian earring (“earring”), Dutch oorring (“earring”), German Low German Ohrring (“earring”), German Ohrring (“earring”), Danish ørering (“earring”), Swedish örring (“earring”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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