greiða
Old Norse
verb
Definitions
- to unravel, disentangle, arrange
- (with m) to comb or dress the hair
- to make or get ready
- to speed, to further
- to pay
- to discharge, perform
Etymology
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
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- graith English
- dégréer French
- gréer French
- *garaidijaną Proto-Germanic
- grej Swedish
- greja Swedish
- greia Norwegian Nynorsk
- ġerǣdan Old English
- graithen Middle English
- greiði Old Norse
- grej Danish
- greje Danish
- endurgreiða Icelandic
- greiða Icelandic
- greiðsla Icelandic
- greiða Faroese
- greid Westrobothnian
- greie Norwegian