gruoni

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *grōnī, from Proto-Germanic *grōniz.

Adjective

gruoni

1. green

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: groene
  • Dutch: groen
    • Afrikaans: groen
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: grun
    • Negerhollands: groen, grun
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: gruin
    • Sranan Tongo: grun
      • Aukan: guun
      • Saramaccan: guúun
  • Limburgish: greun, gruuen
  • West Flemish: groene

Further reading

• “gruoni”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

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Old High German

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *grōnī, from Proto-Germanic *grōniz, whence also Old Saxon groni, Old English grēne, Old Norse grœnn.

Adjective

gruoni

1. green

Derived terms

• gruonī

Descendants

• Middle High German: grüene
  • Alemannic German: grüen

    Swabian: grea, grien

    Walser: geriénts, grien, gréén, grün

  • Bavarian: grian, gri͡an (alternative spelling, e.g. Styria), grean (most dialects), grien (Sappada, Sauris), grea

    Apeltonerisch: gria

    Cimbrian: gruan, grümma, grüun

    Mòcheno: grea'

  • Central Franconian: jrön, green, grien

    Hunsrik: grien

    Luxembourgish: gréng

  • East Central German:

    Upper Saxon German:

    Vilamovian: grin

  • East Franconian:
  • German: grün
  • Rhine Franconian: grie, grien, griene

    Frankfurterisch: IPA [kʀĩː]

    Pennsylvania German: grie

  • Yiddish: גרין (grin)

Etymology 2

From the adjective gruoni: gruoni +‎ -ī

Noun

gruonī f

1. greenness