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Icelandic
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Norse grafa (“to dig”), from Proto-Germanic *grabaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrābʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”).
Verb
grafa (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative gróf, third-person plural past indicative grófu, supine grafið)
- to dig
- to bury
- Synonym: greftra
- to engrave
- Synonym: skera
- to enquire
- Synonyms: grafast, spyrja
- (impersonal) to suppurate, fester
Conjugation
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
Derived terms
- grafa skurði (“to trench”)
- grafa undan (“to undermine”)
Related terms
Etymology 2
From the verb grafa (“to dig”).
Noun
grafa f (genitive singular gröfu, nominative plural gröfur)
Declension
Derived terms
- keðjugrafa (“trencher”)
- traktorsgrafa (“excavator loader”)
- vélgrafa (“mechanical excavator”)
- víragrafa (“rope-operated excavator”)
- vökvagrafa (“hydraulic excavator”)
Etymology 3
Noun
grafa
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Irish
Participle
grafa
- past participle of graf (“write; draw, sketch; graph, plot, chart”)
Noun
grafa m sg
Noun
grafa m pl
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
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