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Rh, then, cannot be originally explained from an and  swirl, , to which it assimilates in form, but more from an old *svarfla, about, tofling here and there (B.H.), from svarfa,, to displace; put out of order; to upset.
 * svarfla,, to rummage

the sea, shallow bank, fishing-ground. Now only as a place-name, thus: de [*hǫfðagrunnr], named after the forelands “de Nort’, Mid and Sooth ” in Otherwise more  in the form ;   grunn, , and grunnr,, a shallow; the bottom of the sea.
 * grunn [gron(n)],, a shoal in

grunnka [gro‘ŋka],, a shallow bank in the sea, a fishing-ground; now as the name of a certain fishing-ground: de (inside “we’re [‘we have’] been on de (de )”.  Outside doubtless found only as a place-name, name of fishing-grounds, thus: de  ; de [gro‘ŋkəs],  ; de [gro‘ŋkəns],   form . *,  With  to the derivative ending,   grunka,, a shallow place in the water.
 * see the word);
 * grunnka,, of grunn, grunnr,

grunt,, to grunt, see ,

grøb [grøb],, properly to make holes in the earth, to grub before the sowing of turnips; to g. de muld. gröpa, grypa,, to delve; scoop (Ri. p. 220), gropa, grópa,  See the word.

grøbi$n$ [grø̄bi, grøbi],, 1) a hollow; small, roundish hollow in the soil; a place from which the turf has been cut, and from which the so-called “dof muld” is fetched (see , ), a bare patch  of mould (forming a small hollow), a  [mȯldi, møldi] g. Noted down in , with long ø, otherwise a short ø is more common. also  [grȯbi], a muldi g.: (alternating with ). A form [grøp] is handed down in the , ,  and  In a distinction is made between , hollow,  a g. i’ de flør [‘floor’], and “a muldi ”. 2) a large vessel, sunk in the barn-floor, in which the husks are loosened from the corn by stamping it with the feet. 1: a hollow. Barclay (Suppl. to Edm.) has “grûp” (in which û denotes the short ø-sound) in sense of a) a ditch; peat-pit; b) a gutter behind the stalled cattle in a byre for receiving their dung and urine. — As a place-name the word is found, in “de [grøp] o’ de Sooth Sten” (Hamarsberg, Snaravo, ). —   graup, grop, grøypa,, a groove; hollow, grøyp, , deep track, grop and groppä, grubbå,, a hollow; deep track. grube,, a pit, ; gróp,, a pit, = gróf, gryfja, and may spring from *graup, *grøyp(a) or *grypja(?); from *grop, *gropp- (gróp?) or *graup.
 * [grøp]. Arisen from sense

grøbi$mo$ [grø̄bi],, 1) soft mud; mire; slush. 2) bungled work; worthless objects.   grypja and grøypa,, lumpy or untidy mass, (lumpy) mixture (R.).

grøbi$1$ [grø̄bi],, a small, feeble, incapable person; a poor wretch; also a naughty child.  the same word as “krjup” and “kryp”, , a poor wretch; coward (from krjúpa,, to creep), with the change of initial k > g, often occurring in Norn. With to this change, the  word.

grøbi$w., n.$ [grø̄bi],, in cattle: the 18