branden

Etymology 1
From, a backformation from the past forms of , , from , metathesis of , from , from. Displaced the form. The sense “to write to a storage medium” is a.

According to Etymologisch Woordenboek van het Nederlands, the Middle Dutch past forms were formed anew from  by analogy with the related noun, thus involving a kind of "re-metathesis". However, it appears more plausible that those forms survived unaltered (alongside the regularised forms) because the consonant cluster -nd- hampered the metathesis (as it clearly did in ). The regular a-vocalism is due to Rückumlaut (cf. 🇨🇬, ). Only the backformation of the present stem would have been influenced by the noun.

Verb

 * 1)  to burn, to set aflame, to be alight
 * 2)  to be lit
 * 3)  to burn, to write to a storage medium

Verb

 * 1) to surge, to break (the sea or sea waves)

Etymology
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Etymology
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Verb

 * 1) To burn; to blaze.
 * 2)  To be passionate.