burn – English noun declension

English noun forms of burn

Noun: burn
Singularburn
Pluralburns

Sample Sentences

  • She had second-degree burns from falling in the bonfire.
  • He burnt his hand in the fire.
  • chili burn from eating hot peppers
  • They’re doing a controlled burn of the fields.
  • One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. [2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:]
  • One and, two and, keep moving; feel the burn!
  • TOM: I’m serious bruv. Put my burn and lighter and all that in my jeans please and give them here, then press the cell bell. [2002, Tom Wickham, “A Day In The Wrong Life”, in Julian Broadhead, Laura Kerr, editors, Prison Writing, 16th edition, Waterside Press, →ISBN, page 26:]
  • “Any of you want to borrow some burn,” asked a scarred inmate known as Bull. [2006, S. Drake, A Cry for Help, Chipmunkapublishing ltd, →ISBN, Chapter 7, page 94:]
  • It was like no one was looking out for me, and the older kids used to take the piss ...they were always threatening me and taking my burn [tobacco][…] [2006, Peter Squires, editor, Community Safety: Critical Perspectives on Policy and Practice, Policy Press, →ISBN, page 23:]
  • As the prison week ended and the less careful inmates began to run out of burn they went through a peculiar begging ritual that I, never one to husband resources either, was quick to learn. [2010, Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles:]
  • Allow additional burns enables you to create a multisession CD, which can be used again to write more data. [2003, Maria Langer, Mac OS X 10.2 Advanced, page 248:]
  • They have a good burn.
  • On 4 March 1999, the MCO performed its second course correction manoeuvre with a burn involving its four thrusters […] [2004, David Baker, Jane's Space Directory, page 529:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-der.
3. Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenw-
4. Proto-Indo-European *bʰrénuh₁e-?
5. Proto-Germanic *brinnaną
6. Proto-West Germanic *brinnan
7. Old English biernan
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9. Proto-Germanic *brinnaną
10. Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
11. Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
12. Proto-Germanic *-janą
13. Proto-Germanic *brannijaną
14. Proto-West Germanic *brannijan
15. Old English bærnan
16. Old Norse brennabor.
17. Middle English brennen
18. English burn
19. From Middle English barnin, bearne, beerne, beornen, berne, bernen, birne, burne, burnen, bærnen, which arose via the metathesis of branne, brennen, brennyn, brynne, from Old English beornan, biernan, birnan, byrnan, from Proto-West Germanic *brinnan, from Proto-Germanic *brinnaną (“to burn”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenw-, present stem from *bʰrewh₁- (“to boil; to brew”). The East Midland forms were heavily influenced by Old Norse brenna, brinna (“to burn”). Doublet of brew.
20. The late metathesis of East Midland brin- to birn- (and subsequently burn-) parallels the phonological development of bird and dirt from brid and drit. As this metathesized form became the Chancery Standard, it completely displaced the semantic functions and weak conjugation paradigm of the native Old English bærnan (weak), alongside the surviving remnants of byrnan (strong).
21. Cognates
22. Cognate with Cimbrian prönnan (“to burn”), Dutch barnen, branden (“to burn”), German brinnen (“to burn”), Luxembourgish brennen (“to burn”), Vilamovian brīn (“to burn”), Yiddish ברענען (brenen, “to burn”), Danish brænde (“to burn”), Faroese and Icelandic brenna (“to burn”), Norwegian Bokmål brenne (“to burn”), Norwegian Nynorsk brenna, brenne (“to burn”), Swedish brinna (“to burn”), Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌰𐌽 (brinnan, “to burn”); also Cornish bros (“blazing, boiling”), Irish bruth (“heat; eruption; surf”), Welsh brwd (“eager, keen; passionate, zealous”), Latin defrutum (“grape must reduced by boiling”), Ancient Greek πορφύρω (porphúrō, “to boil, heave”), Albanian burth (“Cyclamen hederifolium; mouth burning”), Armenian աղբյուր (aġbyur, “fountain, spring”), Sanskrit भुर्वन् (bhurvan, “runnel, spring”). More at brew. See: Old English Nouns 'beornan', Old Norse Nouns 'brenna', Old English Nouns 'bærnan', Danish Nouns 'brænde', Irish Nouns 'bruth', Latin Nouns 'defrutum'.

Verbs referencing "burn"

Italian Nouns bronzo, Ancient Greek Nouns φρέαρ.