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Old English · noun

græf

Part of speech
noun, neuter
Declension
strong a-stem
IPA
/ɡræf/
Syllables
ɡræf (1 syllable)
Modern English
grave

Meaning

  1. grave

    Þēah þe græf wille golde strēġan brōþor his ġeborenum, byrġan be dēadum, māþmum mislīċum þæt hine mid wille, ne mæġ þǣre sāwle þe biþ synna ful gold tō ġēoce for godes eġsan, þonne hē hit ǣr hȳdeð þenden hē hēr leofað.

    Even if a brother would like to strew gold on grave for his kinsmen, to bury next to the dead with manifold riches that he would like to have with him, gold cannot be a help for this soul, who is full of sins, before the dread of God, after he first hides it while he lives here.

    10th century, The Seafarer:
  2. trench

Declension

Declension of græf
SingularPlural
Nominative græfgrafu
Accusative græfgrafu
Genitive græfesgrafa
Dative græfegrafum

All forms (6)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *grab, from Proto-Germanic *grabą, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrābʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with Old Frisian gref, Old Saxon graf, Old Dutch graf, Old High German grab, Old Norse grǫf, Gothic (graba).

Descendants

grave

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