grafa

See also: grāfa and grāfā

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkraːva/
    Rhymes: -aːva

Etymology 1

From Old Norse grafa (to dig), from Proto-Germanic *grabaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrābʰ- (to dig, scratch, scrape).

Verb

grafa (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative gróf, third-person plural past indicative grófu, supine grafið)

  1. to dig
  2. to bury
  3. to engrave
  4. to enquire
  5. (impersonal) to suppurate, fester
Conjugation
Synonyms
  • (to bury): greftra
  • (to engrave): skera
  • (to enquire): grafast, spyrja
Derived terms
  • grafa skurði (to trench)
  • grafa undan (to undermine)

Etymology 2

From the verb grafa (to dig).

A modern excavator.

Noun

grafa f (genitive singular gröfu, nominative plural gröfur)

  1. an excavator, a digger; (large machine used to dig holes and trenches)
Declension
Derived terms
  • keðjugrafa (trencher)
  • traktorsgrafa (excavator loader)
  • vélgrafa (mechanical excavator)
  • víragrafa (rope-operated excavator)
  • vökvagrafa (hydraulic excavator)

Etymology 3

Noun

grafa

  1. indefinite genitive plural of gröf

Irish

Etymology 1

Verb

grafa

  1. past participle of graf (write; draw, sketch; graph, plot, chart)

Noun 1

grafa m sg

  1. genitive singular of grafadh

Noun 2

grafa m pl

  1. vocative plural of graf (graph, chart)

Etymology 2

Noun

grafa m sg

  1. genitive singular of grafadh ((act of) grubbing, hoeing; grubbed land)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
grafa ghrafa ngrafa
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References


Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *grabaną.

Verb

grafa

  1. to dig
  2. to bury
  3. to engrave
  4. to enquire (also in middle voice: grafask)
  5. (impersonal) to cause the formation of pus (in something); suppurate
  • grǫf

Descendants

References

  • grafa in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

grafa m sg

  1. genitive singular of graf

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalLenition
grafaghrafa
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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