Bearing
Old English beran, of Germanic origin; from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit bharati, Greek pherein, and Latin ferre .
wiktionary
From Middle English beringe, berynge, berende, berande, berand, from Old English berende(“bearing; fruitful”) (also as synonym Old English bǣrende), from Proto-Germanic *berandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *beraną(“to bear; carry”), equivalent to bear + -ing.
From Middle English bering, beringe, berynge, equivalent to bear + -ing.
etymonline
bearing (n.)
mid-13c., "a carrying of oneself, deportment," verbal noun from bear (v.). Meaning "direction or point of the compass in which an object is seen or is moving" is from 1630s; to take (one's) bearings is from 1711. Mechanical sense of "part of a machine that 'bears' the friction" is from 1791.
