grafa.
to dig
Meaning & usage
to dig
to bury
to engrave
to enquire
for there to be a festering/infection [with það ‘dummy subject’ and í (+ dative) ‘location of infection’] (idiomatically translated as “fester” or “get infected”, with the dative prepositional object as the logical subject)
Það grefur í sárinu.
Where this word comes from
From Old Norse grafa (“to dig”), from Proto-Germanic *grabaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrābʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”).
an excavator, a digger; (large machine used to dig holes and trenches)
Where this word comes from
From the verb grafa (“to dig”).
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