granni

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse granni, from Proto-Germanic *garaznô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɾanːɪ/

  Rhymes: -anːɪ

Noun

granni m (genitive singular granna, plural grannar)

1. neighbour

Declension

m1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	granni	grannin	grannar	grannarnir
accusative	granna	grannan	grannar	grannarnar
dative	granna	grannanum	grannum	grannunum
genitive	granna	grannans	granna	grannanna

m4	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	granni	grannin	grannar	grannarnir
accusative	granna	grannan	grannar	grannarnar
dative	granna	grannanum	gronnum	gronnunum
genitive	granna	grannans	granna	grannanna

Synonyms

• (neighbor): nábúgvi

Icelandic

FWOTD – 3 November 2015

Etymology

From Old Norse granni, from Proto-Germanic *garaznô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkranːɪ/
• Rhymes: -anːɪ

Noun

granni m (genitive singular granna, nominative plural grannar)

1. neighbour

   Synonyms: nágranni, nábúi

   • 1963, Gunnar Dal, transl., Varnarræða Sókratesar (The Apology of Socrates), page 61:

     Þarna er Kritó, jafnaldri minn og granni, faðir þessa unga manns þarna, Kritobúlosar.

     There is Crito, my contemporary and neighbour, father of that young man there, Critobulus.

Declension

Declension of granni (masculine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	granni	granninn	grannar	grannarnir
accusative	granna	grannann	granna	grannana
dative	granna	grannanum	grönnum	grönnunum
genitive	granna	grannans	granna	grannanna

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *garaznô.

Noun

granni m (genitive granna, plural grannar)

1. neighbour

Declension

Declension of granni (weak an-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	granni	granninn	grannar	grannarnir
accusative	granna	grannann	granna	grannana
dative	granna	grannanum	grǫnnum	grǫnnunum
genitive	granna	grannans	granna	grannanna

Coordinate terms

• granna f (“female neighbour”)

Descendants

• Icelandic: granni
• Faroese: granni
• Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Bokmål: granne
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: granne
• Old Swedish: granne
  • Swedish: granne c
• Old Danish: grannæ
  • Danish: grande c
• → Kven: kranni
• → Northern Sami: kránnjá
• → Southern Sami: kraanna

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “granni”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• ranni

Etymology

Inherited from Latin grandis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈ(ɡ)ranni/
• Hyphenation: gràn‧ni

Adjective

granni (feminine singular granni, masculine and feminine plural granni)

1. big, large
2. (by extension) old

Antonyms

• nicu
• (less common) pìcculu, pìcciulu

Derived terms

• grannizza
• grammirzì

Related terms

• anticchia
• assai
• autu
• curtu
• grossu
• longu
• picca
• tanticchia
• tantu

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 10: “sarà grande” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it