gry
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English gryen (“to shudder, shake, or convulse”). Compare grue.
Verb edit
gry (third-person singular simple present gries, present participle grying, simple past and past participle gried)
Noun edit
gry (plural gries)
Etymology 2 edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun edit
gry (plural gries)
- (archaic) A small amount.
- (archaic) One hundredth of an inch in the decimal system of measurement devised by John Locke
Etymology 3 edit
Abbreviation
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
gry (plural grys)
- Abbreviation of gray or grey (the color)
Adjective edit
gry (not comparable)
- Abbreviation of grey or gray (the color)
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek γρῦ (grû).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
grȳ n (indeclinable)
References edit
- “gry”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- gry in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Verb edit
gry (imperative gry, present tense gryr, passive -, simple past grydde, past participle grydd, present participle gryende)
- to dawn, begin to get light (of a day)
References edit
- “gry” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Verb edit
gry (present tense gryr, past tense grydde, past participle grytt/grydd, passive infinitive gryast, present participle gryande, imperative gry)
- to dawn (a day)
Polish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gry
- inflection of gra:
Swedish edit
Etymology 1 edit
Related to gryt, gryta, and English grit, all from Proto-Germanic *greutą.
Noun edit
gry n
Etymology 2 edit
From Old Norse grýjandi (“in the dawn”), ultimately related to the root of grå.
Verb edit
gry (present gryr, preterite grydde, supine grytt, imperative gry)
- to dawn
- 1915, Dan Andersson, Kolvaktarens Visor, Kolvaktaren
- Snart är morgon gryende,
då gå jättar flyende
ned till Hanga hed. […]- Soon the morning is dawning
then giants go fleeing
down to Hanga heath. […]
- Soon the morning is dawning
- innan en ny dag gryr
- before a new day dawns
- 1915, Dan Andersson, Kolvaktarens Visor, Kolvaktaren
Conjugation edit
Active | Passive | |||
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Infinitive | gry | — | ||
Supine | grytt | — | ||
Imperative | gry | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | gryn | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | gryr | grydde | — | — |
Ind. plural1 | gry | grydde | — | — |
Subjunctive2 | gry | grydde | — | — |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | gryende | |||
Past participle | grydd | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
Related terms edit
References edit
Yola edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English grey, from Old English grǣġ, from Proto-West Germanic *grāu.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
gry
Noun edit
gry
Derived terms edit
References edit
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 43
whit, baun | gry | bhlock, blaak |
reed | yulloureed | yullou, ghou, buee |
*leem green | green | *meente |
blúegreen | *asure | blúe |
purple | rowse |