gronen

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old English grānian, from Proto-West Germanic *grainōn, from Proto-Germanic *grainōną, a derivative of *grīnaną (which didn't leave any descendants in Middle English).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡrɔːnən/
  • (Early Middle English) IPA(key): /ˈɡrɑːnən/
  • (Northern) IPA(key): /ˈɡraːn/

Verb

gronen

  1. To groan; to make a groaning or moaning sound:
    1. To groan or cry due to birth pangs.
    2. To groan as an animal; to make beastly calls.
  2. To mumble, especially to protest (compare modern English moan in semantics).
  3. To develop or have an illness or disease.
  4. (rare) To pass away; to suffer from death.

Conjugation

Conjugation of gronen (weak in -ed)
infinitive (to) gronen, grone
present tense past tense
1st-person singular grone groned
2nd-person singular gronest gronedest
3rd-person singular groneth groned
subjunctive singular grone
imperative singular —
plural1 gronen, grone groneden, gronede
imperative plural groneth, grone —
participles gronynge, gronende groned, ygroned

1 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Descendants

  • English: groan
  • Scots: grane, grain

References

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.