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This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.
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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *grasą.
Noun
*gras n[1]
- grass
Inflection
| Neuter a-stem
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Singular
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*gras
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| Genitive
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*grasas
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Singular
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Plural
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| Nominative
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*gras
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*grasu
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| Accusative
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*gras
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*grasu
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| Genitive
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*grasas
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*grasō
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| Dative
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*grasē
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*grasum
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| Instrumental
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*grasu
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*grasum
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Derived terms
Descendants
- Old English: græs, gærs
- Middle English: gras, grasse, gresse, gres, gers, grece, græs, grace, gars, grys, grisse, grese
- Old Frisian: gers, gres
- Old Saxon: gras
- Middle Low German: gras
- Dutch Low Saxon: gras
- German Low German: Gras
- Old Dutch: *gras
- Old High German: gras
- Middle High German: gras
- Alemannic German: Gras
- Italian Walser: gras, gros
- Bavarian:
- Cimbrian: gras, grass
- Mòcheno: gros
- Udinese: gròs, gros, groos
- Central Franconian:
- Hunsrik: Graas
- Luxembourgish: Gras
- East Central German:
- Vilamovian: gros
- East Franconian:
- German: Gras
- Rhine Franconian: Gras
- Frankfurterisch: [kʀɑːs], (older) [kʀɔːs]
- Pennsylvania German: Graas
- Yiddish: גראָז (groz)
References
- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 147: “PWGmc *gras”