greina

Inherited from Old Norse greina.

greina (third person singular past indicative greindi/greinaði, third person plural past indicative greindu/greinaðu, supine greint/greinað)

1. to distinguish
2. to interpret
3. to branch off, ramify
4. to analyze/analyse

• IPA^(key): /ˈkreiːna/
• Rhymes: -eiːna

From Old Norse greina.

greina (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative greindi, supine greint)

1. to discern, to distinguish, to separate
   • Genesis 1 (Icelandic translation)

     Guð sagði: „Verði ljós!“ Og það varð ljós. Guð sá, að ljósið var gott, og Guð greindi ljósið frá myrkrinu. Og Guð kallaði ljósið dag, en myrkrið kallaði hann nótt. Það varð kveld og það varð morgunn, hinn fyrsti dagur.

     And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

2. to analyse
3. (of a disease) to diagnose
4. to make something out, to discern
5. (impersonal)

   Okkur greinir á um þetta.

   We disagree about this.

• aðgreina
• kryfja

greina

1. indefinite accusative/genitive plural of greinir

greina m or f

1. definite feminine singular of grein

• greinen

greina

1. inflection of greine:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

• greinet
• greinte (simple past)
• greint (past participle)

greina f

1. definite singular of grein

According to Ihre, related to Proto-Germanic *grindaną (“to grind”). However, compare the noun grein (“branch, distinction”), from *granō (“awn, bristles”).

greina

1. to divide into parts
2. to discern, distinguish
3. to expound, tell, record
4. (reflexive) to branch out, be separated

• Faroese: greina
• Icelandic: greina
• Norwegian Nynorsk: greine
• Norwegian Bokmål: grene, greine

greina

1. indefinite genitive plural of grein

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “greina”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive