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266,  As tl in does not change to si, the grisl can hardly be developed directly from grytl, grutl, , pebbles; gravel.

grisli, grisl-y [grɩsli],, full of pebbles, of soil; a girs [‘grass’]-grown, , stany [‘stony’] (ridge of earth). , See ,

grist [grɩst, grəst],, 1) strength; force; bodily fitness; der’r nae [‘no’] g. in him . 2) a) strong, hypnotic influence practised by one person upon another; b) hypnotizing; witchcraft; to kast a g. ower ane, α) to deprive someone of his personal will by hypnotic influence; β) to practise witchcraft upon someone, to bewitch. — With  2 grust,, harsh authority; fear caused by domineering, chastising authority (R.). 1 may be the same word (, with to the meaning,  grusa and grysja,, to force one’s way, ), it almost agrees with grist,, strength; endurance; activity, and is in  a loan-word from

grittin [grətin],, a rumbling of thunder; thunderclap; thunder; de g. is gaun [‘going’], the thunder rolls. Noted down in in : . preserved as a tabu-word, belonging to the fishermen’s For * from an older to roll; boom, of thunder.
 * gryltingr.  grulta, grylta, ,

gro [grō],, wind; : 1) a gentle breeze, a g. o’ wind (, ). 2) as a sea-term, fishermen’s tabu-name for wind; de g.; a hantle o’ g., a good deal of wind ; de bow [‘buoy’] is lost de g., the buoy is empty of wind . Fairly common. Also [grū]. — gráði, , a gentle breeze ruffling the surface of the water, graae,, and graa-a, The form  seems to presuppose a *-;   ( east ) “groe” as a parallel form to “graae”. — From was later formed an adjective “” [grōi], windy, with wind; a gro-y day.

gro [grō],, to blow gently; used as a tabu-word at sea: to blow. heHe [sic] (de wind) [grōd] op f(r)ae sicc a ert, the wind began to blow from such and such a quarter. Also [grū] ; he began to  f(r)ae de sooth-east, the wind began to blow (harder) from the south-east. More rarely as  in the : to de bow [‘buoy’], to inflate the buoy, tabu-term at sea. — *gráða (*gróða); graa(a), , to blow gently; to ruffle the surface of the water. For the form ( east ) groe, groo(e), , = graa(a). The word in is easily confounded with “grow”, , to increase, also of wind; but, a) the inflected form ( and ) as distinct from “grew, grown”, and b) the infinitive “to ”, show that  (g. op), in the above-mentioned, must be referred to *gráða, and not to grow.

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 * gro,, see , ,

grobi,, see $w$,


 * grod,, see * and *,

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 * grodningar, *gronge,, see

†grof [grɔf, gråf],, coarse (consisting of large, coarse parts). of later origin: grof, grov,, coarse,  groff and gruff,, are used in a special  sense. The word is already found in grófr, , coarse; large. — See , and