grava
Faroese
verb
Definitions
- to dig
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse grafa (dig, bury) derived from Proto-Germanic *grabaną (dig, trench, scrape) derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrābʰ- (scratch, scrape, dig).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*gʰrābʰ-
Gloss
scratch, scrape, dig
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *gʰrebʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *gʰróbʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *gʰrābʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- grave Norwegian Bokmål
- *grabanaz Proto-Germanic
- *grabaną Proto-Germanic
- *grabą Proto-Germanic
- *grōbō Proto-Germanic
- *þahsuz Proto-Germanic
- grafan Old English
- grafa Old Norse
- grafa Icelandic
- gravan Old High German
- 𐌲𐍂𐌰𐌱𐌰 Gothic
- 𐌲𐍂𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *graban gmw-pro
- gravan Old Dutch
- grevink Middle Low German
- gravan Old Saxon
- grava Old Swedish
- *graban Frankish