greven
English
Etymology
From the same root as greaves, graves (“residue left after rendering animal fat”) and gribenes (“chicken cracklings and onions”). Compare older dialectal northern (Low) German forms like greven and greeven.[1][2][3][4]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡɹivən/, /ɡɹeɪvən/
Noun
greven (uncountable)
- Cracklings from rendered chicken fat.
- 1974, Calvin Trillin, “Mao and Me”, in Alice, let's eat:
- a plate of chopped liver with schmaltz and chopped onion and chopped radish and greven (cracklings from rendered chicken fat)
References
- “greven”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Joseph Wright, editor (1900), “GRAVES”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volumes II (D–G), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC.: "Cp. Holstein dial. greeven, ‘Haut u. Sehnen, die vom ausgebrannten u. geschmolznen Fett von Ochsen oder Schweinen übrig bleiben’ (Idiotikon); so Bremen dial. greven (Wtb.); LG. greven, ‘Grieben’ (Berghaus); MHG. griebe, ‘cremium’ (Lexer)."
- Johann Friedrich Schütze, Holsteinisches Idiotikon (1800), page 66
- Us wurk meidielingen fan it Frysk Ynstitút oan de Ryksuniversiteit yn Grins, volume 24, issue 3 (1975), page 55: "Holstein ken de foarmen greben, greven 'Grieben, die würfelförmigen Reste von ausgebratenem Flohmen'."
- Georg Hennig, Preussisches Wörterbuch (1785), page 89: "Greeven, oder auch Grieben, das Ueberbleibsel vom ausgebrannten Schmolz."
Anagrams
Danish
Middle English
Alternative forms
- grevien, grewen
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French grever, from Latin gravō, gravāre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡreːvən/
Conjugation
Conjugation of greven (weak in -ed)
| infinitive | (to) greven, greve | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | past tense | ||
| 1st-person singular | greve | greved | |
| 2nd-person singular | grevest | grevedest | |
| 3rd-person singular | greveth | greved | |
| subjunctive singular | greve | ||
| imperative singular | — | ||
| plural1 | greven, greve | greveden, grevede | |
| imperative plural | greveth, greve | — | |
| participles | grevynge, grevende | greved, ygreved | |
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
References
- “grẹ̄ven, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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