greina

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Faroese

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Norse greina.

Verb

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greina (third person singular past indicative greindi/greinaði, third person plural past indicative greindu/greinaðu, supine greint/greinað)

  1. to distinguish
  2. to interpret
  3. to branch off, ramify
  4. to analyze/analyse

Conjugation

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Conjugation of greina (group v-1)
infinitive greina
supine greint
participle (a7)1 greinandi greindur
present past
first singular greini greindi
second singular greinir greindi
third singular greinir greindi
plural greina greindu
imperative
singular grein!
plural greinið!
1Only the past participle being declined.
Conjugation of greina (group v-30)
infinitive greina
supine greinað
participle (a6)1 greinandi greinaður
present past
first singular greini greinaði
second singular greinar greinaði
third singular greinar greinaði
plural greina greinaðu
imperative
singular greina!
plural greinið!
1Only the past participle being declined.

Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse greina.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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greina (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative greindi, supine greint)

  1. to discern, to distinguish, to separate
    • Genesis 1 (Icelandic translation)
      Guð sagði: „Verði ljós!“ Og það varð ljós. Guð sá, að ljósið var gott, og Guð greindi ljósið frá myrkrinu. Og Guð kallaði ljósið dag, en myrkrið kallaði hann nótt. Það varð kveld og það varð morgunn, hinn fyrsti dagur.
      And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
  2. (with accusative) to analyse
  3. (of a disease, with accusative) to diagnose
  4. (with accusative) to make something out, to discern
  5. (impersonal)
    Okkur greinir á um þetta.
    We disagree about this.

Conjugation

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Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Noun

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greina

  1. indefinite accusative/genitive plural of greinir

Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

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greina m or f

  1. definite feminine singular of grein

Alternative forms

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Verb

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greina

  1. inflection of greine:
    1. simple past
    2. past participle

Alternative forms

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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greina f

  1. definite singular of grein

Old Norse

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Etymology 1

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According to Ihre, related to Proto-Germanic *grindaną (to grind).[1] However, compare the noun grein (branch, distinction), from *granō (awn, bristles).

Verb

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greina

  1. to divide into parts
  2. to discern, distinguish
  3. to expound, tell, record
  4. (reflexive) to branch out, be separated
Conjugation
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Descendants
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  • Faroese: greina
  • Icelandic: greina
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: greine
  • Norwegian Bokmål: grene, greine

Etymology 2

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Noun

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greina

  1. indefinite genitive plural of grein

References

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  • greina”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  1. ^ Zettersten, A., Mogensen, J. E. (2011). Symposium on Lexicography XI: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium on Lexicography May 2-4, 2002 at the University of Copenhagen. Germany: De Gruyter, p. 353