gren

See also: Gren. and Greń

English

Verb

gren (third-person singular simple present grens, present participle grenning, simple past and past participle grenned)

1. Obsolete spelling of grin.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     And some of Tygres, that did seeme to gren
     And snar at all that ever passed by

Anagrams

• Eng'r, Engr, engr., gern

Albanian

Noun

gren m

1. eggs (of silk worm)

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish gren, from Old Norse grein (“branch”), from Proto-Germanic *grainō. Maybe related to the verb *grīnaną, if the original meaning was "to yawn". The noun has replaced the older Germanic word for "branch", *astaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrɛːˀn/, [ˈɡ̊ʁæˀn]

Noun

gren c (singular definite grenen, plural indefinite grene)

1. a branch, bough (protrusion of wood from the trunk of a tree)
2. (figuratively) a branch (something that branches from something else)

   I vore dage anser mange astronomi som en gren af fysik, men historisk har de udviklet sig fuldstændig uafhængigt af hinanden.

   In our days, many people see astronomy as a branch of physics, but historically, they've developed completely independently of each other.

   gren af en slægt, en virksomhed

   branch of a family, a company

Declension

Declension of gren

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	gren	grenen	grene	grenene
genitive	grens	grenens	grenes	grenenes

Descendants

• Norwegian Bokmål: gren

German Low German

Adjective

gren

1. Alternative form of green

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• grein

Etymology

From Danish gren (“branch, bough”), from Old Danish gren, from Old Norse grein (“branch, point, part”), from Proto-Germanic *grain-.

Noun

gren f or m (definite singular grena or grenen, indefinite plural grener, definite plural grenene)

1. a branch (of a tree etc.)

Derived terms

• abildgren
• olivengren
• palmegren

References

• “gren” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse grein

Noun

gren c

1. a branch (on a tree or bush)

   Träd har grenar och kvistar

   Trees have branches and twigs

   Det hänger ett äpple på grenen

   There is an apple hanging on the branch

   Hon bröt av en gren från trädet

   She broke off a branch from the tree

2. a branch (part that splits off like a branch, concretely or abstractly)

   grenuttag

   power strip ("branch outlet")

   1. a branch (line of family descent)

      den finska grenen av familjen

      the Finnish branch of the family

3. a branch (subdivision)

   Geometri är en gren av matematiken

   Geometry is a branch of mathematics

   den norska grenen av organisationen

   the Norwegian branch of the organization

   1. (sports) an event, a discipline

      Längdhopp och tresteg är friidrottsgrenar

      Long jump and triple jump are track and field events

   2. an event (one of several contests that combine to make up a competition – only put separately from the sense above since "discipline" sounds off here)

      I nästa gren ska de tävlande äta tio kanelbullar så snabbt de kan

      In the next event, the contestants will be eating ten cinnamon buns as fast as they can

4. (usually in the definite) a crotch (area where the legs split from the torso, or the corresponding area on clothing)

   sparka någon i grenen

   kick someone in the crotch

   Byxorna har hål i grenen

   The pants have a hole in the crotch

   Synonym: skrev

Declension

Declension of gren

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	gren	grens
	definite	grenen	grenens
plural	indefinite	grenar	grenars
	definite	grenarna	grenarnas

Derived terms

• friidrottsgren
• grenuttag
• idrottsgren
• paradgren
• trädgren

Related terms

• förgrena
• grena

Trivia

Both kvist (“twig”) and gren (“branch”) often appear in Swedish last names.

See also

• disciplin
• klyka
• kvist (“twig”)

References

• gren in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• gren in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• gren in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English grain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡɾen]

Noun

gren (nominative plural grens)

1. grain (British English: corn)

Declension

declension of gren

	singular	plural
nominative	gren	grens
genitive	grena	grenas
dative	grene	grenes
accusative	greni	grenis
vocative 1	o gren!	o grens!
predicative 2	grenu	grenus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Synonyms

• glen (obsolete spelling, l > r)

Hypernyms

• plan

Derived terms

• grenabarak
• grenöp

See also

• gran