gríss
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Old Norse
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Kroonen considers Pokorny's comparison with *grīsaz (“grey”) erroneous. Instead, from the Proto-Germanic strong verb *grīsaną (“to be straying”).[1]
Noun
[edit]gríss m (genitive gríss, plural grísir)
- young pig, piglet
Declension
[edit] Declension of gríss (strong i-stem, s-genitive)
Descendants
[edit]- Icelandic: grís
- Faroese: grísur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: gris; (dialectal) grís'e
- Swedish: gris
- Danish: gris
- Norwegian Bokmål: gris