*grasą

Runic: ᚷᚱᚨᛊᚨ Pronunciation: /ˈɣrɑ.sɑ̃/

noun · neuter · a-stem

Meanings

grass

Etymology

A secondary zero-grade s-stem from the root of *grōaną and *grōniz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (‘to grow, become green’). It cannot be directly from *gʰr̥h₁-s-, where the syllabic sonorant would result in *gurs-.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nom.grasągrasō
Acc.grasągrasō
Gen.grasas, grasisgrasǫ̂
Dat.grasaigrasamaz
Inst.grasōgrasamiz
Voc.grasągrasō

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Descendants

  • *gras (Proto-West Germanic)
    • *gras (Old Dutch)
      • gras, gars, gers (Middle Dutch)
        • graas (Limburgish)
        • ges, gas (West Flemish)
        • gos (Zealandic)
  • *gras (Proto-West Germanic)
    • *gras (Old Dutch)
      • gras, gars, gers (Middle Dutch)
        • gras (Dutch)
          • gras (Afrikaans)
          • grasa (Berbice Creole Dutch)
          • x'rās, grās (Jersey Dutch)
          • graas, gras (Negerhollands)
  • *gras (Proto-West Germanic)
    • *gras (Old Dutch)
      • gras, gars, gers (Middle Dutch)
        • gras (Dutch)
          • grasi (Sranan Tongo)
            • gaási (Saramaccan)
  • *gras (Proto-West Germanic)
    • græs, gærs, gres, gers (Old English)
      • gras, grasse, gresse, gres, gers, grece, græs, grace, gars, grys, grisse, grese (Middle English)
        • gress, gres, grais, graiss, grase, gers, girs (Scots)
        • grass cock (Yola)
  • *gras (Proto-West Germanic)
    • græs, gærs, gres, gers (Old English)
      • gras, grasse, gresse, gres, gers, grece, græs, grace, gars, grys, grisse, grese (Middle English)
        • grass (English)
          • giraas (Fiji Hindi)
          • gras, garas (Tok Pisin)
  • *gras (Proto-West Germanic)
    • gers, gres (Old Frisian)
      • ? (North Frisian)
      • Gäärs (Saterland Frisian)
      • gers, gjers, jers (West Frisian)
  • *gras (Proto-West Germanic)
    • gras (Old High German)
      • gras (Middle High German)
        • Gras (Alemannic German)
        • ? (Bavarian)
        • ? (Central Franconian)
        • ? (East Central German)
        • ? (East Franconian)
        • Gras (German)
        • Gras (Rhine Franconian)
        • גראָז (groz) (Yiddish)
  • *gras (Proto-West Germanic)
    • gras (Old Saxon)
      • gras (Middle Low German)
        • gras (Dutch Low Saxon)
        • Gras (German Low German)
        • Grauss (Plautdietsch)
  • gras (Old Norse)
    • gras (Elfdalian)
    • gras (Faroese)
    • gras (Gutnish)
    • gras (Icelandic)
  • gras (Old Norse)
    • ? (Norwegian)
      • gress, gras (Bokmål)
      • gras (Norwegian Nynorsk)
  • gras (Old Norse)
    • græs (Old Danish)
      • græs (Danish)
  • gras (Old Norse)
    • græs, gras (Old Swedish)
      • gräs (Swedish)
  • 𐌲𐍂𐌰𐍃 (gras) (Gothic)
  • *(k)rāsē (Proto-Samic)
  • *rasi (Proto-Finnic)

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