The story
- Proto-Germanic · derived from*brūnaz“brown”
- Medieval Latin · borrowed frombrunneus“brown”
- English todaybrunneous
Borrowed from Medieval Latin brunneus (“brown”), derived from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz (“brown”).
Words from the same roots
Proto-Germanic*brūnaz all →
burnish
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.