- *bʰrewh₁- "to boil; to brew" brew (< OE brēowan); burn (< OE biernan,
beornan);
bread (< OE brēad);
broth (< OE broþ) ferveō "I burn, I'm hot" ⇒ ; fermentum...
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became eo in most
later varieties of Old English,
giving alternations like
beornan "to burn", biernþ "(he/she) burns" īo īe > ȳ īo, ēo līoht "light", līehtan...
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originally distinct Old
English verbs: bærnan "to kindle" (transitive) and
beornan "to be on fire" (intransitive), both from the Proto-Germanic root bren(wanan)...
- (Gothic gras), þerscan "to thresh" (Gothic þriskan)
Before n:
byrnan ~
beornan "to burn (intr.)" (Gothic brinnan),
irnan "to run" (Gothic rinnan), īren...
