Beginning

Definition: Beginning

Beginning

Adjective

1. At a first stage of development; just becoming familiar with the rudiments or skills or routines; "a beginning bodybuilder"; "a beginning reader"; "a novice cook".

2. Serving to begin; "the beginning canto of the poem"; "the first verse".

Noun

1. The event consisting of the start of something: "the beginning of the war".

2. The time at which something begins; "They got an early start".

3. The first part or section of something: "`It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story".

4. The place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root".

5. The act of starting something; "he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "beginning" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Beginning

Beginning

Noun: beginning, commencement, opening, outset, incipience, inception, inchoation; introduction; (precursor); alpha, initial; inauguration, debut, le premier pas, embarcation, rising of the curtain; maiden speech; outbreak, onset, brunt; initiative, move, first move; narrow end of the wedge, thin end of the wedge; fresh start, new departure.

Begin at the beginning, begin ab ovo.

Adverb: at the beginning, in the beginning; Noun: first, in the first place, imprimis, first and foremost; in limine; in the bud, in embryo, in its infancy; from the beginning, from its birth; ab initio, ab ovo, ab incunabilis, ab origine.

Adjective: beginning; Verb: initial, initiatory, initiative; inceptive, introductory, incipient; proemial, inaugural; inchoate, inchoative; embryonic, rudimental; primogenial; primeval, primitive, primordial; (old); aboriginal; natal, nascent.

Get underway, set about, get to work, set to work, set to; make a beginning, make a start.

Change

Phrase: "a change came o'er the spirit of my dream"; nous avons change tout cela; tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis; non sum qualis eram; casaque tourner; corpora lente augescent cito extinguuntur; in statu quo ante bellum; "still ending and beginning still"; vox audita perit littera scripta manet.

Completeness

Throughout; from first to last, from beginning to end, from end to end, from one end to the other, from Dan to Beersheba, from head to foot, from top to toe, from top to bottom, de fond en comble; a fond, a capite ad calcem, ab ovo usque ad mala, fore and aft; every, whit, every inch; cap-a-pie, to the end of the chapter; up to the brim, up to the ears, up to the eyes; as.. as can be.

Destruction

Destroying; Verb: demolition, demolishment; overthrow, subversion, suppression; abolition; (abrogation); biblioclasm; sacrifice; ravage, razzia; inactivation; incendiarism; revolution; extirpation; (extraction); beginning of the end, commencement de la fin, road to ruin; dilapidation; (deterioration); sabotage.

Crosswords: Beginning

He's beginning to believe (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

Come on lads, let's get home, the sky's beginning to bruise, night must fall and we shall be forced to camp (Withnail and I; writing credit: Bruce Robinson.)

I'm beginning to like this guy. (True Lies; writing credit: Claude Zidi; Simon Michaël)

Either I'm going to kill her, or I'm beginning to like her. (Star Wars; writing credit: George Lucas)

I am beginning to repel people I am trying to seduce (Broadcast News; writing credit: James L. Brooks.)

In this world we're just beginning (Heaven Is A Place On Earth; performing artist: Belinda Carlisle)

I'm only just beginning to see the real you (Sometimes When We Touch; performing artist: Dan Hill)

That's not the beginning of the end (Return To Innocence; performing artist: Enigma)

But lately I'm beginning to find that when (Drive; performing artist: Incubus)

Smell those shrimp, they're beginning to boil ("Margaritaville"; performing artist: Jimmy Buffett)

Two wrongs are only the beginning. (references; author: unknown)

What the caterpillar calls the end, the butterfly calls the beginning. (references; author: unknown)

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith. The beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety. (references; author: unknown)

Always a New Beginning (1973)

Lassie: A New Beginning (1973)

The Beginning of the End of the World (1971)

Part Two: The Beginning (1970)

In the Beginning a Wilderness of Air (1959)

Funky Nassau (performing artist: The Beginning of The End)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• 1st Steps for a Beginning Guitarist Volume One: Chords and Chord Progressions for the Guitar (reference)

• Beginning VB.NET, Second Edition (reference)

• Ready... Set... Read!: The Beginning Reader's Treasury (reference)

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Periodicals

• Icd-9-cm Workbook For Beginning Coders - With Answers (reference)

• Point Of Beginning (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Ellen DeGeneres - The Beginning (reference)

• Homicide Life on the Street: The Beginning (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Beginning That Never Began (reference)

• In The Beginning (reference)

• The Very Best of Chicago: Only the Beginning (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Beginning Reading Grades 1-2 (reference)

• Beginning Sounds (reference)

• Beginning Visual Basic 2.0 [DOWNLOAD] (reference)

• Populous: The Beginning (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The beginning of the chemotherapy testing program. J. Hartwell (right) and assistant at NCI about 1950. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Note the contrast between normal skin cytoarchitecture, and the beginning acanthosis (increased thickness of the stratum spinosum) with elongation of rete pegs; magnified 100X. Credit: CDC.

Since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, the CDC has been at the forefront of HIV investigation and lab research. Credit: CDC.

This series of images, which spans more than five days beginning at 5:33 p.m. EDT on July 16, ... Credit: NASA.

In the beginning of the 1946 holiday film classic "It's a Wonderful Life," angelic figures ... Credit: NASA.

"Malmedy Massacre" - approximately 70 members of Battery B killed after captured Fair J. Bryant was travelling with Battery A of 285th at time of massacre Occurred at beginning of Battle of the Bulge. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Amphibious landing beach on Tinian at H+5 hours Note survey crew on left already beginning work for artillery survey. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Beginning point of trip to Fanning Island. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Beginning of haulback of net at the end of a trawl. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Beginning to build a hydrographic signal. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And if such are found in our land at the beginning of the war, they shall be detained, without injury to their bodies or goods, until information be received by us, or by our chief justiciar, how the merchants of our land found in the land at war with us are treated; and if our men are safe there, the others shall be safe in our land. (reference)

And this is that, and that only, which did, or could give beginning to any lawful government in the world. (Second Treatise of Government)

If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified. (reference)

Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions of bourgeois production; by means of measures, therefore, which appear economically insufficient and untenable, but which, in the course of the movement, outstrip themselves, necessitate further inroads upon the old social order, and are unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionising the mode of production. (reference)

To be issued forthwith, further 40,000,000,000 Marks gold bearer bonds, bearing interest at 2-1/2 per cent. per annum between 1921 and l926, and thereafter at 5 per cent. per annum with an additional l per cent. for amortisation beginning in 1926 on the whole amount of the issue. (reference)

Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1925)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It would be almost beginning their life of civility again

And Bruno, having quite exhausted all his inventive faculty, by beginning in too great a hurry, quietly resigned himself to listening

Nothing terrible ever happened to him, though she was beginning to think that it was time it damn well did. If nothing terrible happened to him soon maybe she'd do it herself

Thus, at the beginning of this century, the old society cleansed its double bottom and made the toilette of its sewer

Reproduction is the beginning of death

The Western States are nervous under the beginning change

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Research into such prevention measures is just beginning. (references)

Now, however, the brain is beginning to relinquish its secrets. (references)

Doctors are beginning to use laparoscopic surgery for appendectomy. (references)

Business

The French are beginning to purchase online. (references)

Lines beginning 090 denote premium rate services. (references)

The use of broadband is just beginning in France. (references)

Children

Argentina

A 1993 law requires that all children receive a minimum of 9 years of schooling, beginning at age six. (references)

Austria

While 9 years of education are mandatory for all children beginning at age 6, the Government also provides free education through secondary school and subsidizes technical, vocational, or university education. (references)

Saudi Arabia

Children are not subject to the strict social segregation faced by women although they are segregated by sex in schools, beginning at the age of 7; however, schools were integrated through the fourth grade in some areas. (references)

Civil Liberties

Kyrgyz Republic

All media must register with the Ministry of Justice and wait for Ministry approval before beginning to operate. (references)

Belgium

The center began limited operations in 1999 and was fully operational and open to the public at the beginning of the year. (references)

Indonesia

Aceh's leading daily newspaper, Serambi Indonesia, closed for a month beginning on August 11 after harassment from the GAM. (references)

Economic History

Uzbekistan

Many agents and distributors are beginning to emerge. (references)

Uganda

By 1990, these policies were beginning to produce results. (references)

Colombia

Production from current reserves is beginning to taper off. (references)

Human Rights

Haiti

The men had fled to the two villages after the beginning of the "zero tolerance" crackdown by police. (references)

Chile

The case was reopened at the beginning of 2000 and is among those being investigated by Judge Guzman. (references)

Italy

Prosecutors alleged that beginning in 1986 he illicitly overturned more than 400 organized crime-related convictions. (references)

Indigenous People

Brazil

The study found that, during 2000, the indigenous population grew by 3.5 percent, to a total of approximately 350,000 persons, spread among 216 "nations." At the beginning of the 20th century, the population was approximately one-third its present size, and scholars have estimated that about 1,000 indigenous "nations," comprising 3 to 4 million persons, existed at the time of discovery by the Europeans. (references)

Minorities

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Minority officers are beginning to be deployed in areas where minority returns are occurring; however, the lack of housing for returning police officers has hindered this process. (references)

Japan

However, in August 2000, the Education Ministry announced that, beginning in 2001, graduates of non-Japanese-language schools would be eligible to take national university examinations if they pass a state-run high school equivalency test. (references)

Political Economy

Indonesia

Many feared that he was beginning to undermine their effectiveness. (references)

Turkey

Turkey has been a vital U.S. ally since the beginning of the Cold War. (references)

CHINA

Interest rates on foreign currency deposits have declined since the beginning of 2001 to match the low rates on domestic currency savings. (references)

Political Rights

Albania

Five rounds of voting, beginning in June and ending in August, were required to complete the process. (references)

Malaysia

Originally appointed for a 2-year term beginning in January, Ainum, citing ill health, resigned in November, and was replaced at the end of the year. (references)

Zambia

The MMD attempted to expel 22 of its M.P.'s who were leaders in the anti-third-term movement following the party's convention in the beginning of May. (references)

Trade

Kazakhstan

As of the beginning of 1999, the ADB had signed agreements to lend Kazakhstan $415 million. (references)

Peru

Peru's average tariff stands at 11.6%, down significantly from over 60% at the beginning of 1990. (references)

West Bank

Banks in WB/G may hold dollar accounts, and they are beginning to develop some offshore banking services. (references)

Travel

Korea

Some companies are beginning to provide Saturday mornings or every other Saturday off. (references)

Luxembourg

German is the language of instruction beginning in first grade; French begins shortly thereafter. (references)

Greece

Growing tourist travel makes advance hotel reservations advisable, particularly beginning in late spring and summer. (references)

Worker Rights

Mozambique

Children must undergo a medical examination before beginning work. (references)

El Salvador

The union must wait 4 days from the time the Ministry notifies the employer before beginning the strike. (references)

Cambodia

In a case beginning in 2000, a factory continued to defy a MOSALVY order to reinstate dismissed union leaders. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Beginning

A beginning

From the beginning

Beginning

Expressions using "beginning": at the beginning ♦ at the beginning of ♦ begin at the beginning ♦ beginning from monday ♦ beginning of lent ♦ beginning of new epoch ♦ beginning of the end ♦ beginning rhyme ♦ beginning with ♦ from beginning to end ♦ from the beginning ♦ from the beginning to end ♦ from the beginning to the end ♦ from the very beginning ♦ in the beginning ♦ make a beginning ♦ promising beginning ♦ right at the beginning ♦ since the beginning of time ♦ start at the beginning. Additional references.

Beginning with "beginning": beginning-of-year, beginning-to.

Ending with "beginning": are-beginning, tone-beginning.

Afrikaans

begin (begin, commence, commencement, does start, start). (various references)

Albanian

zanafillë (genesis, inception, origin, root), sefte (start), krue, fillim (breaking, coming-in, commencement, cradle, dawn, inception, incipience, initiation, lead off, offset, onset, opening, origin, origination, outset, prime, rise, river head, seed, send off, set out, start, term). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فجر (aurora, blast, blow up, burst, dawn, detonate, dynamite, explode, let flow, morning, set off, shot out, spout, spurt, undermine), ‏مستهل (initiate, onset, outset), ‏مطلع (acquainted, aware of, informed, introduction, knowing, onset, proem, start, sunrise), ‏مصدر (fount, fountain, infinitive, mother, origin, principle, provenance, provenience, root, source, springhead), ‏مبادرة (action, initiative, lead), ‏الشروع في, ‏البداية (first, kickoff), ‏إبتداء (commencement, inception), ‏أصل (ancestry, birth, derivation, descent, extraction, genealogy, genesis, germ, ingrain, origin, parent, parentage, paternity, pedigree, principle, provenance, provenience, race, rise, root, seed, source, stock, strain, taproot), ‏بداية (commencement, conception, inception, onset, opening, origination, outbreak, outset, start, starter, starting, threshold). (various references)

Basque

hasiera. (various references)

Bulgarian 

начало (abc, basis, dawn, debut, forepart, genesis, inception, incipience, infancy, initiation, kick off, lead off, offset, onset, opening, origin, origination, outset, prime, principle, proem, rise, rudiment, set out, source, start), започване (commencement, initiation, institution, lead), произход (background, birth, blood, derivation, descent, extraction, filiation, fountain, genesis, line, mint, nativity, origin, origination, origins, parentage, pedigree, provenance, provenience, rise, stock). (various references)

Chinese 

起点, 開頭 , 開端 (start), 開始 (begin, initial, start), 朔 (first day of lunar month), 初 (at first, basic, first, junior). (various references)

Croatian

poèetku. (various references)

Czech

zaèátek (commencement, inception, onset, start), poèátek (inception, incipience, lead off, onset, opening, origin, origination, outset, prime, rise, set out). (various references)

Danish

begyndelse (commencement, start). (various references)

Dutch

begin (commencement, inception, opening, outset, start), ontstaan (arise, commencement, start), aanvang (commencement, start). (various references)

Esperanto

komenco (commencement, start), komenciĝo (commencement, start), eko (commencement, inception, opening, outset, start). (various references)

Faeroese

byrjan (commencement, start), uppruni (commencement, origin, start). (various references)

Finnish

alku (commencement, initial, origin, original, outset, rise, start). (various references)

French

commencement, inauguration, début. (various references)

Frisian

begjin (commencement, start), oanfang (commencement, start). (various references)

German

beginn (advent, commencement, dawn, inauguration, inception, induction, initiation, morning, onset, opening, outset, start, threshold), anfang (commencement, departure, entrie, inception, incipience, init, initial, morning, onset, opening, origin, outset, start, top). (various references)

Greek 

αρχή (basis, commencement, forepart, inception, incipience, incipiency, incunabula, magistracy, onset, origin, origination, outset, prime, principle, start). (various references)

Hebrew 

התחלה (commencement, inception, onset, opening, outset, start). (various references)

Hungarian

kezdet (commencement, conception, dawn, debut, first, inception, incipience, initiation, initiative, lead off, onset, origin, outset, parent, prime, rudiment, setout, start), kezdés (commencement, inception, lead-off, set out, setout). (various references)

Icelandic

byrjun (commencement, start). (various references)

Indonesian

pangkal (cause, starting point), awal (commencement, early, first, start). (various references)

Irish

dtosach. (various references)

Italian

principio (cause, commencement, criterion, dawn, entrie, origin, outset, principle, start, tenet, top), inizio (advent, beginnung, commencement, dawn, inception, kick off, onset, opening, origination, outset, prime, root, start, starting). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

端緒 (a clue, start), 冒頭 (outset, start). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

こぐち (clue, edge, end, section, small amount), でだし (start), ほんしょ (main office, origin, police headquarters, script, start, text, this book, this office), かきだし (opening sentence or paragraph), かいし (commencement, Japanese tissue, mysterious death, paper used for writing tanka, start, termination), かわきり (start), てはじめに (at first, at the outset), いとぐち (clue, thread end), ぼうとう (boom, outset, sharp rise, skyrocketing, start, sudden rise), あけぼの (dawn, daybreak), あけ (dawn, end, expiration), らんしょう (source), はつ (counter for gunshots, departure, first, new), はじまり (origin), はじめ (origin, start), いり (audience, capacity, entering, expense, income, setting), しょて (start), たんちょ (a clue, start), たちあがり (cutting, how well a pitcher pitches at the start of the game, start, starting, styling), おこり (cause, genesis, origin, source), しそめ (outset), そうそうき (outset), そうそう (attendance at a funeral, brevity, distinguished, early, eminent, facies, funeral, hurry, inauguration, quickly, rudeness), ふたあけ (opening), しょとう (10th lunar month, archipelago, cane sugar, early winter, elementary, group of islands, primary, sucrose), さいしょ (first, onset, outset), きげん (A.D., era, humour, mood, origin, period, rise, temper, term), くちあけ (broaching, first sale, opening, start), まくあけ (opening), まくあき (opening, raising of the curtains), まっさき (the foremost, the head), たんしょ (a clue, defect, demerit, disadvantage, start, weak point), しょくち. (various references)

Korean 

처음 (inception). (various references)

Manx

toshiaght (bow, bow of ship, captain, captain of team, commencement, curtain-raiser, dawn, dawning, fore, forefront, forepart, forestalling, genesis, getaway, inception, initiation, lead, opening, origin, outset, preliminary, start, stem, threshold, threshold of pain etc, vanguard). (various references)

Occitan

debuta. (various references)

Papiamen

cuminsamentu (commencement, start). (various references)

Pig Latin

eginningbay.(various references)

Polish

początek (commencement, start). (various references)

Portuguese

princípio (commencement, first, foundation, fount, fundamental, origin, outset, prelude, prime, principle, start, sustenance, tenet, threshold), começo (birth, commencement, first, lead-off, morning, onset, opening, outset, prime, set-out, start, threshold). (various references)

Romanian

început (commencement, dawn, dayspring, entrance, first, germ, go off, head, head line, inchoation, lead off, morning, opening, outset, setting in, source, spring, start, starter, starting). (various references)

Russian 

начало (breaking, commencement, cradle, go off, go-off, inception, incipience, kick off, leader, onset, opening, origin, origination, outbreak, outset, prime, proem, set out, start). (various references)

Scottish

toiseach (origin, source, the beginning), tionnsgnadh (devising). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

začetak (embryo), početak (commencement, exordium, go off, inception, incipience, induction, morning, onset, outbreak, outset, set out, start, starter, threshold). (various references)

Spanish

comienzo (birth, break, commencement, execution, inception, incipience, initiative, introduction, onset, opening, origin, outbreak, outset, start, starting), principio (a b c, a.b.c., abc, birth, commencement, front, inception, initiation, opening, outset, principle, rule, setout, start, tenet), origen (birth, bottom, commencement, derivation, derivative, descent, extraction, lineage, origin, origination, provenance, provenience, root, source, start). (various references)

Swedish

början (commencement, first, inception, incipience, incipiency, onset, origin, outset, prime, start), begynnelse (commencement, start). (various references)

Thai

เริ่มแรก (git-go), จุดเริ่มต้น (origin, takeoff). (various references)

Turkish

başlangıç (approach, big bang, commencement, commencing, cradle, dawn, departure, doorway, early, elementary, exordium, first, go off, inception, incipience, incipiency, incunabula, infancy, introduction, lead off, morning, off, onset, origin, outset, preamble, preliminary, prelude, prime, proem, prolog, prologue, push off, setout, start, starting, take off, toe-hold), baş (arch, arch-, beginnings, bow, capital, central, chief, coconut, costard, especial, first, foremost, general, governing, grand, head, heading, in chief, initial, knob, leader, master, nob, noddle, off, outset, potato, premier, primal, primary, prime, principal, sconce, top), kaynak (authorship, basis, birth, bottom, chapter and verse, context, font, fount, fountain, fountain-head, fund, genesis, grass roots, headspring, inquiries, origin, parent, paternity, principle, provenance, quarter, reserve, resource, rise, root, root stock, roots, seeds, source, source material, source of supply, spore, spring, weld, welding, well, wellhead, wellspring, womb), köken (authorship, basis, bedrock, birth, derivation, descent, etymon, extraction, genesis, lineage, origin, origination, paternity, pedigree, principle, provenance, radical, root, seeds, spore, spring, wellhead, wellspring, womb). (various references)

Turkmen 

start (r). (various references)

Ukrainian

відправна точка, витоки (beginnings), походження (ancestry, birth, blood, caste, derivation, genesis, kin, lineage, origin, original, origination, parentage, pedigree, provenance, source, strain), початкова стадія, початок (authorship, breaking, commencement, cradle, dawn, dawning, day-spring, first, inception, incipience, morning, mother, onset, opening, origin, original, origination, outset, prime, proem, prolog, prologue, set out, start, starting, womb), першопричина (efficient, origin, principle), джерело (authorship, channel, cradle, derivation, fount, fountain-head, headspring, lymph, origin, parent, paternity, principle, progenitor, quarry, radix, source, spring, well, wellspring, whence). (various references)

Vietnamese 

phần đầu (forepart), lúc khởi đầu căn nguyên, lúc bắt đầu (start). (various references)

Welsh

babandod (babyhood, infancy), dechreuad, dechrau (begin, commence, start), cychwyniad (start). (various references)

Yucatec

chun (base, basis, commencement, lineage, origin, start, stem, trunk). (various references)

carcere, carcerem, carceribus, carceris, carcerum, coeptum, exordii, exordiis, exordio, exordium, fundamenta, fundamenti, fundamentis, fundamento, fundamentum, inceptum, initi, initia, initiis, initio, initium, orsa, orsa, orsorum, orsusque, principi, principia, principio, principium. (various references)

anginn, fruma, or. (various references)

sourse. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "beginning": beginnings. (additional references)

Words ending with "beginning": misbeginning, rebeginning. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Beginning" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bcginning, Bedinini, beggining, begginning, begining, Beginnen, beginni, beginnig, beginnning, bigynnynge. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bingeing, engining.

-2 letters: binging, binning, ginning, inbeing.

-3 letters: benign, biggie, biggin, gibing, gieing, inning.

-4 letters: begin, being, benni, binge, genii.

-5 letters: bine, gibe, gien, nine.

+1 letter: beginnings.

+2 letters: rebeginning.

+3 letters: misbeginning.

+4 letters: herringboning.

+5 letters: bioengineering.