gry

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English gryen (to shudder, shake, or convulse). Compare grue.

Verb[edit]

gry (third-person singular simple present gries, present participle grying, simple past and past participle gried)

  1. (dialectal) To have a slight bout or fit of ague (chills or shaking due to cold or fever).

Noun[edit]

gry (plural gries)

  1. A fit of ague.

Etymology 2[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun[edit]

gry (plural gries)

  1. (archaic) A small amount.
  2. (archaic) One hundredth of an inch in the decimal system of measurement devised by John Locke

Etymology 3[edit]

Abbreviation

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Noun[edit]

gry (plural grys)

  1. Abbreviation of gray or grey (the color)

Adjective[edit]

gry (not comparable)

  1. Abbreviation of grey or gray (the color)

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Ancient Greek γρῦ (grû).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

grȳ n (indeclinable)

  1. the least amount; scrap, crumb
  2. dirt under the fingernails

References[edit]

  • gry”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • gry in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Verb[edit]

gry (imperative gry, present tense gryr, passive -, simple past grydde, past participle grydd, present participle gryende)

  1. to dawn, begin to get light (of a day)

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Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Verb[edit]

gry (present tense gryr, past tense grydde, past participle grytt/grydd, passive infinitive gryast, present participle gryande, imperative gry)

  1. to dawn (a day)

Polish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ɡrɨ/
  • Rhymes:
  • Syllabification: gry

Noun[edit]

gry

  1. inflection of gra:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Swedish[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Related to gryt, gryta, and English grit, all from Proto-Germanic *greutą.

Noun[edit]

gry n

  1. grit (personal trait; in the expression gott gry), courage, spirit
    Det är gott gry i dig!
    Attaboy!

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old Norse grýjandi (in the dawn), ultimately related to the root of grå.

Verb[edit]

gry (present gryr, preterite grydde, supine grytt, imperative gry)

  1. to dawn
    innan en ny dag gryr
    before a new day dawns
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Yola[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English grey, from Old English grǣġ, from Proto-West Germanic *grāu.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

gry

  1. grey

Noun[edit]

gry

  1. grey

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 43
Colors in Yola · [Term?] (layout · text)
     whit, baun      gry      bhlock, blaak
             reed              yulloureed              yullou, ghou, buee
             *leem green              green              *meente
             blúegreen              *asure              blúe
                          purple              rowse