Noun: grøft
Gender: Masculine, Feminine
Hyphenation:
Definite
| Sg. | grøfta; grøften |
| Pl. | grøftene |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like grøft
nedbryting,
nedbrytning,
etablering,
frokostblanding,
sender,
avbildning,
etterretning,
sjølei,
betongsag,
havstrømning,
koldnålsradering,
skarphet,
villmark,
bedring,
atomvekt,
klimaendring,
beiting,
kulltegning,
bergart,
berging, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Norse grǫftr (“digging, burial”), from Proto-Germanic *graftuz (“digging, carving”), from *grabaną (“to dig”) + *-þuz, first part from Proto-Indo-European *gʰróbʰ-, o-grade form of Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scratch, bury”). See: Old Norse Nouns '
grǫftr'.
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