English

aburn

From a- + burn.

Formed from a- + burn

Proto-Indo-European *uds- ‘up, out’

Proto-Germanic *uz- ‘out-’

Proto-West Germanic *uʀ- ‘up, out, over’

English a-

Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- ‘to boil’

Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenw-

Proto-Germanic *brinnaną ‘to burn’

Old Norse brinna ‘to burn’

Middle English burne

English burn

Today it means

adj burning

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