grys

See also: Gryś

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch grijs.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

grys (attributive grys or (chiefly figurative senses) gryse, comparative gryser, superlative gryste)

  1. grey/gray
  2. very old and long ago
  3. bleak, sombre

Inflection

Inflection of grys
  predicative attributive independent partitive
singular plural
positive grys grys, gryse gryse gryses grys
comparative gryser grysere gryseres grysers
superlative gryste grystes —

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French gris, from Vulgar Latin *grīsus, from Proto-Germanic *grīsaz.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡriːs/

Noun

grys (plural gryses)

  1. gray, grey
  2. grey fur
Descendants
  • English: gris (obsolete)
References

Etymology 2

Noun

grys

  1. alternative form of gris

Etymology 3

Noun

grys

  1. alternative form of gras

Middle French

Noun

grys m (uncountable)

  1. gray

Adjective

grys m (feminine singular gryse, masculine plural grys, feminine plural gryses)

  1. gray

Descendants

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • (North Wales) IPA(key): /ɡrɨːs/
  • (South Wales) IPA(key): /ɡriːs/

Noun

grys

  1. soft mutation of crys

Mutation

Mutated forms of crys
radical soft nasal aspirate
crys grys nghrys chrys

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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