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gríss

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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Kroonen considers Pokorny's comparison with *grīsaz (grey) erroneous. Instead, from the Proto-Germanic strong verb *grīsaną (to be straying).[1]

Noun

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gríss m (genitive gríss, plural grísir)

  1. young pig, piglet

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Icelandic: grís
  • Faroese: grísur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: gris; (dialectal) grís'e
  • Swedish: gris
  • Danish: gris
    • Norwegian Bokmål: gris

References

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  1. ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “grisa”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 191