grund

• gruond, grunt

From Latin grandis, grandem.

grund

1. big, large, great

• maur

• IPA^(key): [ɡ̊ʁɔnˀ]

From Old Norse grunnr (“shallow”).

• grundet

grund

1. shallow

• Norwegian Bokmål: grunn

A convergence of two Old Norse words, grund (“a plain”) and grunn (“a shallow”).

grund c (singular definite grunden, plural indefinite grunde)

1. reason (a cause)

   Synonym: årsag

2. motive (incentive to act; a reason)
3. site, plot

   Jeg har købt en grund på 200 kvm.

   I've bought a plot of 200 square meters.

4. foundation, basis

   grundlov (“constitution”)

5. shoal, shallow (area of shallow water)

• Norwegian Bokmål: grunn

See grunde (“to ground, establish, ponder”).

grund

1. imperative of grunde

From Old Norse grund (compare grunnr), from Proto-Germanic *grunduz.

• IPA^(key): /krʏnt/
• Rhymes: -ʏnt

grund f (genitive singular grundar, nominative plural grundir)

1. ground

   Synonym: jörð f

   Ég er kominn aftur á íslenska grund.

   I've returned to Icelandic ground.

From Proto-West Germanic *grundu, from Proto-Germanic *grunduz.

• IPA^(key): /ɡrund/

grund m (nominative plural grundas)

1. ground
   • Caedmon's metrical paraphrase

     ...And ǣrest āmet ufan tō grunde and hū sīd sē swarta ēðm sēo.

     ...and first measure from above to its ground, how wide the black vapour is.

2. bottom, foundation

   Ǣlċ sǣ, þēah hēo dēop sīe, hæfþ grund on þǣre eorðan.

   Every sea, no matter how deep, has a bottom in the Earth.

3. abyss, (in the plural) depths

   of grundum

   from the depths

Strong a-stem:

• Middle English: ground, grund, grounde
  • English: ground
    • → Fiji Hindi: garaund
    • → Maltese: grawnd
  • Geordie English: grund, groond
  • Scots: grund, groond, greund
  • Yola: greoune, greoun, greound

Related to Old Norse grunn (“shallow, shoal”). Possibly derived from Old Norse gróa (“to grow”).

grund f (genitive grundar, plural grundir)

1. (expanse of) land
2. green field, grassy plain

• Icelandic: grund f
• Faroese: grund f
• Swedish: grund c
• Danish: grund c

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “grund”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

From Proto-Germanic *grunduz.

grund m

1. ground, foundation, abyss, plain, earth

• greund, groond

From Middle English ground, from Old English grund.

• IPA^(key): /ɡrʌnd/

grund (plural grunds)

1. (Southern Scots) ground

• “grund, n., v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

From Old Norse grunnr (“shallow”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡrɵnd/

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grund (comparative grundare, superlative grundast)

1. shallow

• långgrund

A convergence of two Old Norse words, grund (“a plain”) and grunn (“a shallow”).

grund c

1. ground, land

   Huset är byggt på ofri grund.

   The house is built on non-freehold property.

2. the foundation of a building; the part of the outer walls of a house which extends below the level of the floor, and down to the ground.
3. a fundament, a foundation, a basis, fundamentals; what other constructions (physical or metaphorical) rely on
4. cause; reason
5. a reef or shallow in water

• orsak c (4)

grund n

1. An area of shallow water in a large body of water, which causes a potential danger to boats or ships.

• grundkänning
• grundstötning

• grund in Svensk ordbok.