Drawing
Old English dragan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch dragen and German tragen, also to draught.
wiktionary
From Middle English drauinge, drawinge, alteration of earlier drawende, drawand, from Old English dragende, from Proto-Germanic *dragandz(“drawing”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *draganą(“to draw; pull”), equivalent to draw + -ing.
From Middle English drauing, drawing, equivalent to draw + -ing.
etymonline
drawing (n.)
c. 1300, "a pulling, act of imparting notion by towing," in various senses; verbal noun from draw (v.). The meaning "act of forming or tracing by a pen, pencil, etc." is from late 15c,; that of "picture or representation produced by drawing" is from 1660s.
Drawing-board, "board on which paper is stretched for use in drawing," is from 1725; used in figurative expressions, with the sense of "beginning, starting point" is by 1941 (in the Peter Arno "Well, back to the old drawing board" cartoon in the New Yorker).
