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English

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Etymology

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From the same root as greaves, graves (residue left after rendering animal fat) and gribenes (chicken cracklings and onions). Compare older dialectal northern (Low) German forms like greven and greeven.[1][2][3][4]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɡɹivən/, /ɡɹeɪvən/

Noun

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greven (uncountable)

  1. Cracklings from rendered chicken fat.
    • 1974, Calvin Trillin, “Mao and Me”, in Alice, let's eat:
      a plate of chopped liver with schmaltz and chopped onion and chopped radish and greven (cracklings from rendered chicken fat)

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  • greven”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  1. ^ Joseph Wright, editor (1900), “GRAVES”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: [], volume II (D–G), London: Henry Frowde, [], publisher to the English Dialect Society, []; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC.: "Cp. Holstein dial. greeven, ‘Haut u. Sehnen, die vom ausgebrannten u. geschmolznen Fett von Ochsen oder Schweinen übrig bleiben’ (Idiotikon); so Bremen dial. greven (Wtb.); LG. greven, ‘Grieben’ (Berghaus); MHG. griebe, ‘cremium’ (Lexer)."
  2. ^ Johann Friedrich Schütze, Holsteinisches Idiotikon (1800), page 66
  3. ^ Us wurk meidielingen fan it Frysk Ynstitút oan de Ryksuniversiteit yn Grins, volume 24, issue 3 (1975), page 55: "Holstein ken de foarmen greben, greven 'Grieben, die würfelförmigen Reste von ausgebratenem Flohmen'."
  4. ^ Georg Hennig, Preussisches Wörterbuch (1785), page 89: "Greeven, oder auch Grieben, das Ueberbleibsel vom ausgebrannten Schmolz."

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Danish

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Noun

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greven c

  1. definite singular of greve

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old French grever, from Latin gravō, gravāre.

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Verb

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greven

  1. to grieve

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Descendants

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  • English: grieve
  • Yola: grieefeth (preterite)

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

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greven m

  1. definite singular of greve

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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greven m

  1. definite singular of greve

Swedish

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Noun

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greven

  1. definite singular of greve