greven
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the same root as greaves, graves (“residue left after rendering animal fat”) and gribenes (“chicken cracklings and onions”). Compare older dialectal northern (Low) German forms like greven and greeven.[1][2][3][4]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]greven (uncountable)
- Cracklings from rendered chicken fat.
- 1974, Calvin Trillin, “Mao and Me”, in Alice, let's eat:
- a plate of chopped liver with schmaltz and chopped onion and chopped radish and greven (cracklings from rendered chicken fat)
References
[edit]- “greven”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- ^ Joseph Wright, editor (1900), “GRAVES”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume II (D–G), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC.: "Cp. Holstein dial. greeven, ‘Haut u. Sehnen, die vom ausgebrannten u. geschmolznen Fett von Ochsen oder Schweinen übrig bleiben’ (Idiotikon); so Bremen dial. greven (Wtb.); LG. greven, ‘Grieben’ (Berghaus); MHG. griebe, ‘cremium’ (Lexer)."
- ^ Johann Friedrich Schütze, Holsteinisches Idiotikon (1800), page 66
- ^ Us wurk meidielingen fan it Frysk Ynstitút oan de Ryksuniversiteit yn Grins, volume 24, issue 3 (1975), page 55: "Holstein ken de foarmen greben, greven 'Grieben, die würfelförmigen Reste von ausgebratenem Flohmen'."
- ^ Georg Hennig, Preussisches Wörterbuch (1785), page 89: "Greeven, oder auch Grieben, das Ueberbleibsel vom ausgebrannten Schmolz."
Anagrams
[edit]Danish
[edit]Noun
[edit]greven c
Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old French grever, from Latin gravō, gravāre.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]greven
- to grieve
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of greven (weak in -ed)
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “grẹ̄ven, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Noun
[edit]greven m
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Noun
[edit]greven m
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]greven
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