græs
Appearance
Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Danish græs, from Old Norse gras (“grass”), from Proto-Germanic *grasą, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreH₁- (“grow, become green”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]græs n (singular definite græsset, plural indefinite græsser)
Declension
[edit]| neuter gender |
singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | græs | græsset | græsser | græsserne |
| genitive | græs' | græssets | græssers | græssernes |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]græs
- alternative form of gras
Old English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *grasą, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreH₁- (“grow, become green”). Cognate with Old Frisian gres, Old Saxon gras, Old High German gras, Old Norse gras, Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌰𐍃 (gras).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]græs n (nominative plural grasu)
- grass
- c. 1000, Ælfric of Eynsham, transl., Hexameron of St. Basil[1]:
- God sylf ġesēah ða ðæt hit gōd was swā, and hēt ðā eorðan ardlīċe spryttan growende gærs and ðā grēnan wyrta mid heora āgenum sǣde...ðā wyrta sōna wynsumlīċe grēowon mid meniġfealdum blōstmum mislīċe ġeblēode.
- God himself saw that it was very good, and ordered the earth to immediately sprout forth growing grass and the green herbs with their own seeds...and the plants soon grew pleasantly with manyfold blossoms of various colors.
Declension
[edit]Strong a-stem:
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | græs | grasu |
| accusative | græs | grasu |
| genitive | græses | grasa |
| dative | græse | grasum |
Hyponyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
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- Danish terms inherited from Old Danish
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- Danish terms inherited from Old Norse
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- Danish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
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- Danish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Danish lemmas
- Danish nouns
- Danish neuter nouns
- Middle English alternative forms
- Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old English lemmas
- Old English nouns
- Old English neuter nouns
- Old English terms with quotations
- Old English neuter a-stem nouns
- ang:Grasses
