greven
English edit
Etymology edit
From the same root as greaves, graves (“residue left after rendering animal fat”) and gribenes (“chicken cracklings and onions”). Compare older dialectal northern (Low) German forms like greven and greeven.[1][2][3][4]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
greven (uncountable)
- Cracklings from rendered chicken fat.
- 1974, Calvin Trillin, “Mao and Me”, in Alice, let's eat:
- a plate of chopped liver with schmaltz and chopped onion and chopped radish and greven (cracklings from rendered chicken fat)
References edit
- “greven”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- ^ Joseph Wright, editor (1900), “GRAVES”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volumes II (D–G), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC.: "Cp. Holstein dial. greeven, ‘Haut u. Sehnen, die vom ausgebrannten u. geschmolznen Fett von Ochsen oder Schweinen übrig bleiben’ (Idiotikon); so Bremen dial. greven (Wtb.); LG. greven, ‘Grieben’ (Berghaus); MHG. griebe, ‘cremium’ (Lexer)."
- ^ Johann Friedrich Schütze, Holsteinisches Idiotikon (1800), page 66
- ^ Us wurk meidielingen fan it Frysk Ynstitút oan de Ryksuniversiteit yn Grins, volume 24, issue 3 (1975), page 55: "Holstein ken de foarmen greben, greven 'Grieben, die würfelförmigen Reste von ausgebratenem Flohmen'."
- ^ Georg Hennig, Preussisches Wörterbuch (1785), page 89: "Greeven, oder auch Grieben, das Ueberbleibsel vom ausgebrannten Schmolz."
Anagrams edit
Danish edit
Noun edit
greven c
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old French grever, from Latin gravō, gravāre.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
greven
- to grieve
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of greven (weak in -ed)
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Descendants edit
References edit
- “grẹ̄ven, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Noun edit
greven m
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Noun edit
greven m
Swedish edit
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greven