grøte.
to sadden, distress; to make sorrowful or upset
Meaning & usage
to sadden, distress; to make sorrowful or upset
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Old Norse grǿta (“to cause to weep, make cry”), from Proto-Germanic *grōtijaną (“to cause to weep, make cry”), a causative formation from *grētaną (“to weep, cry”); compare gråte (“to cry, weep”). Compare Norwegian Nynorsk grøte and grøta, Icelandic græta, Faroese grøta and Old Swedish grø̄ta (“to cause to weep, make cry”).
to turn into porridge or a porridge-like mush
to make cloudy, unclear, or indistinct; to muddle, blur
grøte til
to turn into a porridge-like mass; by extension, to become cloudy, unclear, or indistinct
grøte seg
Where this word comes from
From grøt (“porridge; mush”) + -e (“verb-forming suffix”). The alternative spelling graute is correspondingly formed from graut (“porridge; mush”).
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