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grafa.

to dig

5 characters2 syllables approx.Íslenska language

Meaning & usage

verb[ˈkraːva]
  1. to dig

    strong · verb
  2. to bury

    strong · verb
  3. to engrave

    strong · verb
  4. to enquire

    strong · verb
  5. 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)

    impersonal · strong · verb
    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”).

noun[ˈkraːva]
  1. an excavator, a digger; (large machine used to dig holes and trenches)

    feminine
Where this word comes from

From the verb grafa (“to dig”).

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