грети
Old Church Slavonic
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gretì (“to dig, to scrape, to rake”).[1]
Verb
грети • (greti) impf
- to bury
- to scrape
- to row
- Excerpt from the Story of Boris and Gleb, line 45:
- И яко узьрѣ я святыи, въздрадовася душею, а они узьрѣвъше и омрачаахуся и гребяху къ нему.
- I jako uzĭrě ja svjatyi, vŭzdradovasja dušeju, a oni uzĭrěvŭše i omračaaxusja i grebjaxu kŭ nemu.
- And as the holy one caught sight of them, he rejoiced in his soul; but as they saw him, they grew dark and rowed toward him.
- Excerpt from the Story of Boris and Gleb, line 45:
Conjugation
| singular | dual | plural | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| азъ (azŭ) | тꙑ (ty) | тъ (tŭ) | вѣ (vě) | ва (va) | та (ta) | мꙑ (my) | вꙑ (vy) | ти (ti) | |||||||||
| гребѫ (grebǫ) | гребеши (grebeši) | гребетъ (grebetŭ) | гребевѣ (grebevě) | гребета (grebeta) | гребете (grebete) | гребемъ (grebemŭ) | гребете (grebete) | гребѫтъ (grebǫtŭ) | |||||||||
Derived terms
- погрети (pogreti)
References
Further reading
- “грети”, in GORAZD (overall work in Czech, English, and Russian), http://gorazd.org, 2016—2025