grafa

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See also: grāfa and grāfā

Icelandic[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Verb[edit]

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
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Etymology 2[edit]

From the verb grafa (to dig).

A modern excavator.

Noun[edit]

grafa f (genitive singular gröfu, nominative plural gröfur)

  1. an excavator, a digger; (large machine used to dig holes and trenches)
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Etymology 3[edit]

Noun[edit]

grafa

  1. indefinite genitive plural of gröf

Irish[edit]

Participle[edit]

grafa

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

Noun[edit]

grafa m sg

  1. genitive singular of grafadh

Noun[edit]

grafa m pl

  1. vocative plural of graf (graph, chart)

Mutation[edit]

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.

Lithuanian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

grafà f (plural grafos) stress pattern 2[1]

  1. space between two vertical lines;[1] column[2]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Lietuvių kalbos žodynas (t. I–XX, 1941–2002): elektroninis variantas. Redaktorių kolegija: Gertrūda Naktinienė (vyr. redaktorė), Jonas Paulauskas, Ritutė Petrokienė, Vytautas Vitkauskas, Jolanta Zabarskaitė. Programuotojai: Evaldas Ožeraitis, Vytautas Zinkevičius. – Vilnius: Lietuvių kalbos institutas, 2005 (atnaujinta versija, 2017). – http://www.lkz.lt. →ISBN
  2. ^ Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN

Old Norse[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Germanic *grabaną.

Verb[edit]

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

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References[edit]

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

Portuguese[edit]

Verb[edit]

grafa

  1. inflection of grafar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Scottish Gaelic[edit]

Noun[edit]

grafa m sg

  1. genitive singular of graf

Mutation[edit]

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