greet

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Verb 1.2.1.1 Derived terms 1.2.1.2 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Adjective 1.4 Etymology 3 1.4.1 Verb 1.4.2 Noun 1.4.3 References 2 Scots 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Pronunciation 2.3 Verb 2.4 Noun 2.5 Adjective

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /gɹi:t/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}
• Rhymes: -iːt

[edit] Etymology 1

Old English grētan < West Proto-Germanic *grotja. Cognate with Dutch groeten, German grüßen. Compare Old Saxon grotian, Old Frisian greta, Dutch groeten, Old High German gruozen, German grußen (“‘to salute, greet’”).

[edit] Verb

to greet (third-person singular simple present greets, present participle greeting, simple past and past participle greeted)

1. To address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes; to salute; to hail; to welcome; to accost with friendship; to pay respects or compliments to, either personally or through the intervention of another, or by writing or token.

   My lord, the mayor of London comes to greet you. -Shak.

2. To come upon, or meet, as with something that makes the heart glad.

   In vain the spring my senses greets. -Addison.

3. To accost; to address.
4. (intransitive) To meet and give salutations.

   There greet in silence, as the dead are wont, And sleep in peace. -Shak.

[edit] Derived terms

• greeter
• meet-and-greet

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[edit] Etymology 2

[edit] Adjective

greet (comparative more greet, superlative most greet)

1. (obsolete, except Scottish) Great.

[edit] Etymology 3

From a blend of two Old English verbs, grētan (cognate with Swedish gräta', Danish græde) and grēotan (of uncertain ultimate origin), both ‘weep, lament’.

[edit] Verb

to greet (third-person singular simple present greets, present participle greeting, simple past and past participle greeted)

1. (Scottish and Northern England, archaic) To weep; cry, lament.

   Divint greet wor lass, he had a canny innins.

[edit] Noun

greet (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Mourning, weeping, lamentation.

[edit] References

• The New Geordie Dictionary, Frank Graham, 1987, ISBN 0946928118
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893-4[1]
• greet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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[edit] Scots

[edit] Etymology

From a blend of two Old English verbs, grētan (cognate with Swedish gråta', Danish græde) and grēotan (of uncertain ultimate origin), both ‘weep, lament’.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /grit/

[edit] Verb

tae greet (third-person singular simple present greets, present participle greetin, simple past grat or grettit, past participle grutten)

1. to weep, lament

[edit] Noun

greet (uncountable)

1. cry, lamentation

[edit] Adjective

greet (comparative mair greet, superlative maist greet)

1. great