guarnir

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guarnir (first-person singular indicative present guarno, past participle guarníu)

1. to garnish

   Synonym: guarnecer

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 French garnir.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ɡwəɾˈni/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ɡwərˈni/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ɡwaɾˈniɾ/
• Rhymes: -i(ɾ)

guarnir (first-person singular present guarneixo, past participle guarnit)

1. to decorate; to garnish

• guarnició

• “guarnir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “guarnir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “guarnir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “guarnir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

guarnir (first-person singular present guarno, first-person singular preterite guarnín, past participle guarnido)
guarnir (first-person singular present guarno, first-person singular preterite guarnim or guarni, past participle guarnido, reintegrationist norm)

1. Alternative form of gornir

From Old French guarnir.

guarnir

1. Alternative form of garnir (“to decorate, garnish”)

• garnir
• warnir (Anglo-Norman)

From Frankish *warnjan.

guarnir

1. to protect
2. (by extension) to arm (provide with arms)
3. (by extension) to armor
4. (by extension) to clothe

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.

• guarnement

• guarir

• Middle French: garnir, guarnir
  • French: garnir
    • → Russian: гарни́р m (garnír)
• →⇒ Middle English: garnysshen, garnysche, garnyschyn, garnysh
  • English: garnish
  • Scots: gairnish

• IPA^(key): /ɡwaɾˈniɾ/ [ɡwaɾˈniɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: guar‧nir

guarnir (first-person singular present guarno, first-person singular preterite guarní, past participle guarnido)

1. to garnish

   Synonym: guarnecer

2. (nautical) to reeve

• “guarnir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014