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learn verb To teach (a skill, subject, etc.) to, instruct. [OED3 learn v 4 “to teach”]. SEE ALSO learnt.

1796 Bent Creek Church Minutes 18 query Wheather doth not god Require All persons to larne there Servents to Read the Scripture. 1860 Week in Smokies 125 I do declare I believe a body might larn a lawyer something, if he would only use his own eyes and sense. 1913 Morley Carolina Mts 193 The girls of the mountains prefer machine-made cloth. “I can’t learn her noway,” the mother says of her daughter [who takes no interest in the loom]. 1939 Hall Coll (Catons Grove TN) Back in my young days we couldn’t get no doctors them days hardly ever, and we had to do our own doctoring and we learnt up. 1953 Atwood Verbs East US 17 In all areas [of the Atlantic states] learntlearnt predominates markedly (being used by two thirds of the informants); in some sections (e.g. most of Va.) Learned hardly occurs at all. 1978 Montgomery White Pine Coll X-2 [They'd] learn you to read a little and try to learn you to write just a little bit, learn you to spell. 2008 Rosie Hicks 1 That learned me a lesson.