grafa

• IPA^(key): /ˈkraːva/

  Rhymes: -aːva

From Old Norse grafa (“to dig”), from Proto-Germanic *grabaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrābʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”).

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

• grafa skurði (“to trench”)
• grafa undan (“to undermine”)

• gröf

From the verb grafa (“to dig”).

grafa f (genitive singular gröfu, nominative plural gröfur)

1. an excavator, a digger; (large machine used to dig holes and trenches)

grafa

1. indefinite genitive plural of gröf

grafa

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

grafa m sg

1. genitive singular of grafadh

grafa m pl

1. vocative plural of graf (“graph, chart”)

• (grafà) IPA^(key): /ɡraˈfa/

grafà f (plural grafos) stress pattern 2^[1]

1. space between two vertical lines;^[1] column^[2]

• skiltis f

From Proto-West Germanic *graib, *graibō (“branch, group of branches, thicket”), from Proto-Germanic *graibaz, *graibô (“branch, fork”), perhaps related to *grīpaną (“to grasp”) and Ancient Greek χρίμπτω (khrímptō, “scratch, graze, wound”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrɑː.fɑ/, [ˈɡrɑː.vɑ]

grāfa m

1. grove, copse

Weak:

• Middle English: grove
  • English: grove

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “gráfa”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

From Proto-Germanic *grabaną.

grafa

1. to dig
2. to bury
3. to engrave
4. to enquire (also in middle voice: grafask)
5. (impersonal) to cause the formation of pus (in something); suppurate

• grǫf
• grǫftr

• Icelandic: grafa
• Faroese: grava
• Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Bokmål: grave
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: grave, grava
• Elfdalian: gråvå
• Old Swedish: grava, græva
  • Swedish: grava, gräva; grafva, gräfva (pre-1906 spelling)
• Danish: grave

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

grafa

1. inflection of grafar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

grafa m sg

1. genitive singular of graf