græs – Old English noun declension

Noun: græs
Gender: n

Nominative

Singular	græs
Plural	grasu

Genitive

Singular	græses
Plural	grasa

Dative

Singular	græse
Plural	grasum

Accusative

Singular	græs
Plural	grasu

Sample Sentences

God sylf ġesēah ða ðæt hit gōd was swā, and hēt ðā eorðan ardlīċe spryttan growende gærs and ðā grēnan wyrta mid heora āgenum sǣde...ðā wyrta sōna wynsumlīċe grēowon mid meniġfealdum blōstmum mislīċe ġeblēode. (God himself saw that it was very good, and ordered the earth to immediately sprout forth growing grass and the green herbs with their own seeds...and the plants soon grew pleasantly with manyfold blossoms of various colors.) [c. 1000, Ælfric of Eynsham, transl., Hexameron of St. Basil:]

Nouns inflected like græs

fæs, fnæs, græs, glæs, bræs,

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *grasą. Cognate with Old Frisian gres, Old Saxon gras, Old High German gras, Old Norse gras, Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌰𐍃 (gras). See: Old Norse Nouns 'gras', Gothic Nouns '𐌲𐍂𐌰𐍃'.

Verbs referencing "græs"

English Nouns grass, Middle English Nouns gras, Gothic Nouns 𐌲𐍂𐌰𐍃, Middle English Nouns grese.