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An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/gelehrt

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gelehrt, gelahrt, participle, ‘learned,’ even in Middle High German gelêrt and gelârt, with the Modern High German sense, properly however, ‘one who is instructed’; compare Middle English ilœred, Scandinavian lœ̂rþr (compare doctus from docere).