grautr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *grautiz, *grautaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrewd-. Related to grjót (“coarse stones”).[1][2]

Noun

grautr m (genitive grautar)

porridge

Related terms

grjót n

Descendants

Icelandic: grautur
Faroese: greytur
Norwegian Nynorsk: graut
- → Norwegian Bokmål: graut
Swedish: gröt
Danish: grød
- Norwegian Bokmål: grøt

References

“grautr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 460-62

Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN
Kroonen, Guus (2013), “greutan”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 189

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.