What is the meaning of Brennen?

to burn; to light on fire

to burn; to be on fire

to have a strong affection for; to be affectionate

to be lit, to be on (of a light or lamp)

to irritate; to induce pain or another painful sensation; to bite; to sting

to smart; to sting

to fire; to bake; to kiln

to distil

to burn; to archive data on a storage medium. (such as CDs, DVDs, etc.)

to emit heat

to roast

to bream (clean a ship etc. by fire and scraping)

to fork out, to shell out

to burn, to set alight

to burn, to be on fire

to smart, to sting

to distil (spirits)

to brand (an animal)

to burn (a disk)

To burn; to undergo combustion.

To burn; to set on fire:

1. To burn a sacrifice or offering.
2. To torture or kill with fire.
3. To raze or destroy by fire.

To burn a sacrifice or offering.

To torture or kill with fire.

To raze or destroy by fire.

To apply fire to:

1. To injure with fire; to cause a burn.
2. To toast or roast; to mark with fire in cooking.
3. To calcine; to heat to refine or dry.

To injure with fire; to cause a burn.

To toast or roast; to mark with fire in cooking.

To calcine; to heat to refine or dry.

To resemble or behave like fire:

1. To be hot or burning.
2. To be bright or shiny.
3. To be emotionally fervent.

To be hot or burning.

To be bright or shiny.

To be emotionally fervent.

To act like fire; to metaphorically "burn":

1. To emotionally actuate or impel.
2. To corrode or inflame.

To emotionally actuate or impel.

To corrode or inflame.

↑ “brennen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

↑ Björkman, Erik (1900), “Chapter I. Phonetic criteria of Scandinavian loan-words in English”, in Scandinavian loan-words in Middle English (Studien zur Englischen Philologie; 7)‎, Part I, Halle A.S.: Max Niemeyer, page 182.

↑ Dance, Richard; Pons-Sanz, Sara; Schorn, Brittany (2019), “brenne v. (wk.)”, in The Gersum Project ⁠‎, University of Cambridge, University of Cardiff, and the University of Sheffield.

↑ McIntosh, Angus; Samuels, M[ichael] L.; Benskin, Michael (2013) [1986], Michael Benskin, Margaret Laing, editors, eLALME: A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English‎, Edinburgh: Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics; revised November 2024.

↑ Dobson, E[ric] J. (1957), English pronunciation 1500-1700‎, second edition, volume II: Phonology, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1968, →OCLC, § 54, page 574.

↑ Luick, Karl (1914-1921), Historische Grammatik der englischen Sprache‎, Erster Band, I. Abteilung, Leipzig: Chr. Herm. Tauchnitz, published 1921, →OCLC, § 432, page 480.

to burn

to burn

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