grǫftr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *graftuz.

Pronunciation

• (12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈɡrɒftr̩/

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
  • Danish: grøft

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “gröftr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 174; also available at the [https://archive.org/stream/concisedictionar001857

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