grautr

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Old Norse[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Germanic *grautiz, *grautaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrewd-. Related to grjót (coarse stones).[1][2]

Noun[edit]

grautr m (genitive grautar)

  1. porridge

Related terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Icelandic: grautur
  • Faroese: greytur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: graut
    • Norwegian Bokmål: graut
  • Swedish: gröt
  • Danish: grød

References[edit]

  1. ^ Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN
  2. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “greutan”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 189