Although brunet is the masculine version of the popular diminutive form used to describe a little boy or young man with brown hair, the use of "brunet" is uncommon in English. Merriam-Webster defines "brunet" as "a person having brown hair"-with which they may have "a relatively dark complexion-spelled brunet when used of a boy or man and usually brunette when used of a girl or woman". In modern English usage, however, it has lost the diminutive meaning and usually refers to any brown-haired girl or woman, or the associated hair color. The form "brun" (pronounced / b r uː n/) is still commonly used in Scotland, particularly in rural areas, and is also the word for "brown" in the Scandinavian languages. All of these terms ultimately derive from the Proto-Indo-European root * bhrūn- "brown, grey". The term brunette is the feminine form of the French word brunet, which is a diminutive form of brun meaning "brown/brown-haired", the feminine of which is brune.
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