garnir

Inherited from Middle French garnir, from Old French guarnir (“to protect (oneself), armour up”), from Frankish *warnijan (“to ward, take care of something”), from Proto-Germanic *warnijaną (“to worry, be careful, take heed, refuse, withhold”), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *wer- (“to close, cover, protect, save, defend”). Compare Italian guarnire and Portuguese guarnir. Cognate with Middle Dutch waernen (“to provide, equip”), Middle Low German warnen, wernen (“to secure, arm”), Old English wiernan (“to withhold, be sparing of, deny, refuse, reject, decline, forbid, prevent”), Old Norse varna (“to prevent, refuse, protect”). Related to English warn.

• IPA^(key): /ɡaʁ.niʁ/

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garnir

1. to furnish (a building, a room)
2. (military, dated) to arm
3. to decorate, to pretty, to garnish

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

• garnison

• → Russian: гарни́р m (garnír)

• “garnir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

garnir

1. indefinite nominative plural of görn
2. indefinite accusative plural of görn

• guarnir

From Old French garnir.

garnir

1. to equip; to furnish with
2. to decorate
   • c. 1369, Jean Froissart, Chroniques:

     Guy de Trimouille fist tres richemment garnir la nef ou son corps devoit passer

     Guy de Trimouille richly decorated the boat where his body should lay

• French: garnir (see there for further descendants)

From Frankish *warnjan.

garnir

1. Alternative form of guarnir

This verb conjugates as a second-group verb (ending in -ir, with an -iss- infix). Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• garnement