Old English · noun
græf
- Part of speech
- noun, neuter
- Declension
- strong a-stem
- IPA
- /ɡræf/
- Syllables
- ɡræf (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- grave
Meaning
-
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: -
trench
Declension
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
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · en.wiktionary.org/wiki/græf · CC BY-SA 4.0 licence · Attribution