Plenish

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To provide a house, farm, or other place with the furniture, goods, or equipment needed to make it fully working and usable
2. To fit out a home or property with the necessary furnishings, stock, or implements so that it is properly equipped
3. Chiefly in Scots usage, to supply a dwelling or holding with everything required, such as furniture, livestock, or tools

Etymology: "Plenish" is a Scots verb meaning to stock a house or farm with furniture, livestock, or equipment. It belongs to a family of words built on the idea of fullness: the Anglo-Norman "plenir" meant "to fill," and it descends from "plein," meaning "full," the same root behind the English "plenty" and "plenary." The Scots form grew from a stem of that verb, the "pleniss-" stem used in certain conjugated forms, so the word carries the sense of making a home or farm full. Its close relative in standard English is "replenish," which keeps the same underlying idea of filling again. "Plenish" stayed largely within Scots usage, where it kept the narrower, practical sense of furnishing a dwelling or stocking a holding rather than simply filling something up.