greven
English
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editNoun
editgreven (uncountable)
- 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)
References
edit- “greven”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- ^ 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)."
- ^ Johann Friedrich Schütze, Holsteinisches Idiotikon (1800), page 66
- ^ 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'."
- ^ Georg Hennig, Preussisches Wörterbuch (1785), page 89: "Greeven, oder auch Grieben, das Ueberbleibsel vom ausgebrannten Schmolz."
Anagrams
editDanish
editNoun
editgreven c
Middle English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Old French grever, from Latin gravō, gravāre.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editgreven
- to grieve
Conjugation
editConjugation of greven (weak in -ed)
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “grẹ̄ven, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian Bokmål
editNoun
editgreven m
Norwegian Nynorsk
editNoun
editgreven m
Swedish
editNoun
editgreven
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