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See also: grāfa and grāfā

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)

  1. to dig
  2. to bury
    Synonym: greftra
  3. to engrave
    Synonym: skera
  4. to enquire
    Synonyms: grafast, spyrja
  5. (impersonal) to suppurate, fester
Conjugation
More information infinitive nafnháttur, supine sagnbót ...
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
More information infinitive nafnháttur, supine sagnbót ...
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
More information strong declension (sterk beyging), singular (eintala) ...
Derived terms
  • grafa skurði (to trench)
  • grafa undan (to undermine)

Etymology 2

From the verb grafa (to dig).

Noun

grafa f (genitive singular gröfu, nominative plural gröfur)

  1. an excavator, a digger; (large machine used to dig holes and trenches)
Declension
More information singular, plural ...
Derived terms
  • keðjugrafa (trencher)
  • traktorsgrafa (excavator loader)
  • vélgrafa (mechanical excavator)
  • víragrafa (rope-operated excavator)
  • vökvagrafa (hydraulic excavator)

Etymology 3

Noun

grafa

  1. indefinite genitive plural of gröf
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Irish

Participle

grafa

  1. past participle of graf (write; draw, sketch; graph, plot, chart)

Noun

grafa m sg

  1. genitive singular of grafadh

Noun

grafa m pl

  1. vocative plural of graf (graph, chart)

Mutation

More information radical, lenition ...

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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Lithuanian

Old English

Old Norse

Portuguese

Scottish Gaelic

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