greiða

Faroese

verb
Definitions
  • to straighten out, to order, to arrange, to unknot
  • to comb
  • to answer, to resolve
  • to prepare
  • to commit, to deliver, to give over
  • greiða frá: to tell, to report, to recount, to explain

Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse greiða (arrange, fit out, comb, make ready, disentangle, prepare) inherited from Proto-Germanic *garaidijaną (arrange, set in order, prepare, put in order).

Origin

Proto-Germanic

*garaidijaną

Gloss

arrange, set in order, prepare, put in order

Concept
Semantic Field

Basic actions and technology

Ontological Category

Action/Process

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