grinden

Borrowed from English grind.

• IPA^(key): /ɡrɑi̯ndə(n)/

grinden

1. (skateboarding) to grind
2. (dance) to grind (dance closely in a sexy way)

From grind (“gravel”) +‎ -en.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɣrɪndə(n)/
• Rhymes: -ɪndən

grinden

1. (transitive) to cover with gravel

From Middle Dutch grinden, from Old Dutch *grindan, from Proto-West Germanic *grindan, from Proto-Germanic *grindaną.

• Like etymology 2 above.

grinden

1. (transitive, obsolete) to grind

Probably a byform of (now also obsolete) grinnen. Alternatively it has been explained from etymology 3 through a theoretical intermediate “grind one's teeth”, but this seems far-fetched. The development of the d is easily explained from the inflections grin(d)t, grin(d)de, gegrind.

• Like etymology 2 above.

grinden

1. (intransitive, obsolete) to grin (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

• grienen
• grinniken
• grijnzen

• grinda

grinden m or f

1. definite masculine singular of grind

grinden

1. definite singular of grind