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Greif

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See also: greif and Gréif

German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German grīf, grīfe, from Old High German grīf, grīfo, borrowed from Latin gryphus. Early on associated with the unrelated verb in greifen (to grab); compare Middle Low German grīp. Possibly a doublet of Cherub.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɡʁaɪ̯f/
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Noun

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Greif m (strong or weak, genitive Greifs or Greifes or Greifen, plural Greife or Greifen)

  1. (mythology, heraldry) griffin

Declension

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See also

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Further reading

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  • Greif on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
  • Greif” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • Greif” in Duden online
  • Greif” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

Slovene

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Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Greif m anim

  1. a surname from German

Declension

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The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nom. sing. Greif
gen. sing. Greifa
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
Greif Greifa Greifi
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
Greifa Greifov Greifov
dative
(dajȃlnik)
Greifu Greifoma Greifom
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
Greifa Greifa Greife
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
Greifu Greifih Greifih
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
Greifom Greifoma Greifi

Further reading

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  • Keber, Janez (2021) Leksikon priimkov [Dictionary of Surnames] (in Slovene), Celje: Celjska Mohorjeva družba, →ISBN, page 228