Noun: græshoppa
Gender: m
Nominative
| Singular | græshoppa |
| Plural | græshoppan |
Genitive
| Singular | græshoppan |
| Plural | græshoppena |
Dative
| Singular | græshoppan |
| Plural | græshoppum |
Accusative
| Singular | græshoppan |
| Plural | græshoppan |
Sample Sentences
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[…] [I] am shaken off like a locust […] [9th century, Vespasian Psalter […] āsċecen [iċ] eam swē swē gershoppe […]]
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Wonders of the East
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Þǣr beoð akende ǣmættan swā miċle swā hundas. Hī habbað fēt swylċe græshoppan, hī syndon rēades hīwes ⁊ blaces. Þā ǣmettan delfað gold up of eorðan fram foran nihte ōþ þa fīftan tīd dæġes. (Ants are born there as big as dogs. They have feet like grasshoppers, and are red and black in color. The ants dig gold up from the earth from before the night until the fifth hour of the day.)
Nouns inflected like græshoppa
sealma,
cristalla,
snecga,
smitta,
sogoþa,
yrfenuma,
selfbana,
bedreda,
worhana,
uuituma,
merefara,
collecta,
hringedstefna,
wyrtwala,
wyrtruma,
ferðloca,
græshoppa,
ferþloca,
forespreca,
græsstapa, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From græs (“grass”) + *hoppa (“hopper”). Compare Old High German hewispranga, literally meaning "hay jumper."
Verbs referencing "græshoppa"
English Nouns
grasshopper, German Nouns
Grashüpfer, English Nouns
grasshop, Middle English Nouns
grashope.
Translations