Old English · noun
græs
- Part of speech
- noun, neuter
- Declension
- strong a-stem
- IPA
- /ɡræs/
- Syllables
- ɡræs (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- grass
Meaning
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grass
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.
c. 1000, Ælfric of Eynsham, transl., Hexameron of St. Basil:
Declension
All forms (6)
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *grasą. Cognate with Old Frisian gres, Old Saxon gras, Old High German gras, Old Norse gras, Gothic (gras).
Descendants
grass
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