græf – Old English noun declension

Noun: græf
Gender: n

Nominative

Singular	græf
Plural	grafu

Genitive

Singular	græfes
Plural	grafa

Dative

Singular	græfe
Plural	grafum

Accusative

Singular	græf
Plural	grafu

Sample Sentences

Þēah þe græf wille golde strēġan brōþor his ġeborenum, byrġan be dēadum, māþmum mislīċum þæt hine mid wille, ne mæġ þǣre sāwle þe biþ synna ful gold tō ġēoce for godes eġsan, þonne hē hit ǣr hȳdeð þenden hē hēr leofað. (Even if a brother would like to strew gold on grave for his kinsmen, to bury next to the dead with manifold riches that he would like to have with him, gold cannot be a help for this soul, who is full of sins, before the dread of God, after he first hides it while he lives here.) [10th century, The Seafarer:]

Nouns inflected like græf

hæf, græf, træf,

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *grab, from Proto-Germanic *grabą, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrābʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with Old Frisian gref, Old Saxon graf, Old Dutch graf, Old High German grab, Old Norse grǫf, Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌰𐌱𐌰 (graba). See: Gothic Nouns '𐌲𐍂𐌰𐌱𐌰'.

Verbs referencing "græf"

English Nouns grave, Middle English Nouns grave, Gothic Nouns 𐌲𐍂𐌰𐌱𐌰.