fournir

== French == === Etymology === From Old French furnir, fornir (whence also English furnish), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *frumjan (“to complete, execute”), from Proto-Germanic *frumjaną (“to further, promote”), from Proto-Indo-European *promo- (“front, forward”). Cf. Old High German frumjan (“to perform, provide”), from fruma (“utility, gain”), akin to Old English fremu (“profit, advantage”), fremian (“to promote, perform”). Compare Catalan fornir, Italian fornire, English furnish. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fuʁ.niʁ/ Rhymes: -iʁ === Verb === fournir to supply, to provide, to furnish to put in fournir de l'effort ― to put in effort (card games) to follow suit (slang) to poke, to shaft, to hump; to have sex ==== 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-. ==== Derived terms ==== fournisseur fourniture ==== Descendants ==== → German: furnieren === Further reading === “fournir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012