provenience vs beginning

provenience and beginning both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
provenience	Yes	No	No	No
beginning	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, beginning is a hypernym of provenience; that is, beginning is a word with a broader meaning than provenience:

provenience: where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence
beginning: the place where something begins, where it springs into being

Other hypernyms of provenience include origin, root, rootage, source.

provenience (noun)	beginning (noun)
where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence	the act of starting something
	the first part or section of something
	the event consisting of the start of something
	the place where something begins, where it springs into being
	the time at which something is supposed to begin

provenience (adjective)	beginning (adjective)
	serving to begin