грети

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Old Church Slavonic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gretì (“to dig, to scrape, to rake”).[1]

Verb

грети • (greti) impf

  1. to bury
  2. to scrape
  3. to row
    • Excerpt from the Story of Boris and Gleb, line 45:
      И яко узьрѣ я святыи, въздрадовася душею, а они узьрѣвъше и омрачаахуся и гребяху къ нему.
      I jako uzĭrě ja svjatyi, vŭzdradovasja dušeju, a oni uzĭrěvŭše i omračaaxusja i grebjaxu kŭ nemu.
      And as the holy one caught sight of them, he rejoiced in his soul; but as they saw him, they grew dark and rowed toward him.

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References

  1. ^ Havlová, Eva, editor (1994), “greti”, in Etymologický slovník jazyka staroslověnského [Etymological Dictionary of the Old Church Slavonic Language] (in Czech), numbers 4 (gostь – istonǫti), Prague: Academia, →ISBN, page 201

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