gren

gren (third-person singular simple present grens, present participle grenning, simple past and past participle grenned)

1. Obsolete spelling of grin
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     And some of Tygres, that did seeme to gren
     And snar at all that ever passed by

• Eng'r, Engr, engr., gern

gren m

1. eggs (of silk worm)

From Old Danish gren, from Old Norse grein (“branch”), from Proto-Germanic *grainō. Maybe related to the verb *grīnaną, if the original meaning was "to yawn". The noun has replaced the older Germanic word for "branch", *astaz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrɛːˀn/, [ˈɡ̊ʁæˀn]

gren c (singular definite grenen, plural indefinite grene)

1. a branch, bough (protrusion of wood from the trunk of a tree)
2. (figuratively) a branch (something that branches from something else)

   I vore dage anser mange astronomi som en gren af fysik, men historisk har de udviklet sig fuldstændig uafhængigt af hinanden.

   In our days, many people see astronomy as a branch of physics, but historically, they've developed completely independently of each other.

   gren af en slægt, en virksomhed

   branch of a family, a company

gren

1. Alternative form of green

• grein

From Danish gren (“branch, bough”), from Old Danish gren, from Old Norse grein (“branch, point, part”), from Proto-Germanic *grain-.

gren f or m (definite singular grena or grenen, indefinite plural grener, definite plural grenene)

1. a branch (of a tree etc.)

• abildgren
• olivengren
• palmegren

• “gren” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse grein.

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gren c

1. (botany) branch
   1. woody part of tree, arising from the trunk
2. something dividing like a tree branch
3. part of a large business or company at a particular location
4. discipline; specific field in business, sports or of knowledge

• grenklyka

Both kvist and gren, meaning the same, are often used as a suffix in Swedish last names.

• grena sig
• förgrena sig

• regn

Borrowed from English grain.

• IPA^(key): [ɡɾen]

gren (nominative plural grens)

1. grain (British English: corn)

• glen (obsolete spelling, l > r)

• plan

• grenabarak
• grenöp

• gran