greosan

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *greusaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰréws-e-. Related to Old Saxon gruri (“fright”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡre͜oː.sɑn/, [ˈɡre͜oː.zɑn]

Verb

grēosan

1. to frighten, scare

Conjugation

Conjugation of grēosan (strong class 2)

infinitive	grēosan	grēosenne
indicative mood	present tense	past tense
first person singular	grēose	grēas
second person singular	grīest	grure
third person singular	grīest	grēas
plural	grēosaþ	gruron
subjunctive	present tense	past tense
singular	grēose	grure
plural	grēosen	gruren
imperative
singular	grēos
plural	grēosaþ
participle	present	past
	grēosende	(ġe)groren

Derived terms

• begrēosan

Related terms

• gryre m (“horror”)

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “greosan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Guus Kroonen, “Reflections on the o/zero-Ablaut in the Germanic Iterative Verbs”, in The Indo-European Verb: Proceedings of the Conference of the Society for Indo-European Studies, Los Angeles, 13-15 September 2010, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2012