brunir

From Middle French, from Old French brunir (“to polish, make brown”), from Frankish *brūnjan (“to polish, make resplendent”), from Proto-Germanic *brūnijaną (“to decorate, tan”), from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz (“brown”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHn- (“grey, brown”). Cognate with Middle High German brūnen (“to decorate, give colour to, redden, tan”). More at brown.

• IPA^(key): /bʁy.niʁ/

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brunir

1. to brown (to become brown)
2. to burnish (to polish gold or silver etc)

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

• “brunir” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• burnir

brunir

1. to polish (of metal, to clean and make shiny)

• Middle French: [Term?]
  • French: brunir
• → Middle English: burnysshen, burnischen
  • English: burnish

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (brunir, supplement)

From Old Portuguese bronir, from Old Occitan brunir, from Frankish *brūnjan (“to polish, make resplendent”), from Proto-Germanic *brūnijaną (“to decorate, tan”), from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz (“brown”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHn- (“grey, brown”).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɾu.ˈniɾ/
• Hyphenation: bru‧nir

brunir (first-person singular present indicative bruno, past participle brunido)

1. to burnish
2. to smooth
3. (Portugal) to iron (to unwrinkle clothes with an iron)

• (to burnish): polir
• (to smooth): alisar
• (to iron): engomar, passar