greven

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English

Etymology

From the same root as greaves, graves (“residue left after rendering animal fat”) and gribenes (“chicken cracklings and onions”). Compare older dialectal northern (Low) German forms like greven and greeven.[1][2][3][4]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɹivən/, /ɡɹeɪvən/

Noun

greven (uncountable)

  1. Cracklings from rendered chicken fat.
    • 1974, Calvin Trillin, “Mao and Me”, in Alice, let's eat:
      a plate of chopped liver with schmaltz and chopped onion and chopped radish and greven (cracklings from rendered chicken fat)

References

  • “greven”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  1. ^ Joseph Wright, editor (1900), “GRAVES”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: , volume II (D–G), London: Henry Frowde, , publisher to the English Dialect Society, ; New York, N.Y.: G P Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC.: "Cp. Holstein dial. greeven, ‘Haut u. Sehnen, die vom ausgebrannten u. geschmolznen Fett von Ochsen oder Schweinen übrig bleiben’ (Idiotikon); so Bremen dial. greven (Wtb.); LG. greven, ‘Grieben’ (Berghaus); MHG. griebe, ‘cremium’ (Lexer)."
  2. ^ Johann Friedrich Schütze, Holsteinisches Idiotikon (1800), page 66
  3. ^ Us wurk meidielingen fan it Frysk Ynstitút oan de Ryksuniversiteit yn Grins, volume 24, issue 3 (1975), page 55: "Holstein ken de foarmen greben, greven 'Grieben, die würfelförmigen Reste von ausgebratenem Flohmen'."
  4. ^ Georg Hennig, Preussisches Wörterbuch (1785), page 89: "Greeven, oder auch Grieben, das Ueberbleibsel vom ausgebrannten Schmolz."

Anagrams

Danish

Noun

greven c

  1. definite singular of greve

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French grever, from Latin gravō, gravāre.

Pronunciation

Verb

greven

  1. to grieve

Conjugation

Conjugation of greven (weak in -ed)
infinitive (to) greven, greve
present tense past tense
1st-person singular greve greved
2nd-person singular grevest grevedest
3rd-person singular greveth greved
subjunctive singular greve
imperative singular —
plural1 greven, greve greveden, grevede
imperative plural greveth, greve —
participles grevynge, grevende greved, ygreved

1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Descendants

  • English: grieve
  • Yola: grieefeth (preterite)

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

greven m

  1. definite singular of greve

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

greven m

  1. definite singular of greve

Swedish

Noun

greven

  1. definite singular of greve
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