gríss

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Old Norse

Etymology

Kroonen considers Pokorny's comparison with *grīsaz (“grey”) erroneous. Instead, from the Proto-Germanic strong verb *grīsaną (“to be straying”).[1]

Noun

gríss m (genitive gríss, plural grísir)

  1. young pig, piglet

Declension

  Declension of gríss (strong i-stem, s-genitive)
masculine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative gríss gríssinn grísir grísirnir
accusative grís grísinn grísi grísina
dative grís grísinum grísum grísunum
genitive gríss gríssins grísa grísanna

Descendants

  • Icelandic: grís
  • Faroese: grísur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: gris; (dialectal) grís'e
  • Swedish: gris
  • Danish: gris
    • Norwegian Bokmål: gris

References

  1. ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “grisa”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 191
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