verb/bʁy.niʁ/
to brown (to become brown); to burnish (to polish gold or silver etc)
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-? Proto-Germanic *brūnaz Proto-West Germanic *brūn Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Germanic *-janą Proto-West Germanic *-jan Frankish *brūnijanbor. Old French brunir French brunir Inherited from Middle French brunir, from Old French brunir (“to polish, make brown”).