grǫftr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *graftuz.

Pronunciation
  • (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈɣrɒftr̩/

Noun

grǫftr m

  1. an act of digging
  2. burial, interment
  3. tomb
  4. a carving

Descendants
  • Icelandic: gröftur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: grøft
  • Norwegian Bokmål: grøft
  • Old Danish: græft, grift, gruft

References
  • "gröftr", Geir T. Zoëga (1910), A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford at the Claredon Press, page 174
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