fourbir

== French == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle French fourbir, from Old French forbir, from Frankish *furbēn. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fuʁ.biʁ/ === Verb === fourbir (transitive) to furbish, burnish ==== Conjugation ==== 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-. ==== Descendants ==== → Catalan: forbir === Further reading === “fourbir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012