grǫftr
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *graftuz.
Pronunciation
- (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈɣrɒftr̩/
Noun
grǫftr m
- an act of digging
- burial, interment
- tomb
- a carving
Descendants
- Icelandic: gröftur
References
- "gröftr", Geir T. Zoëga (1910), A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford at the Claredon Press, page 174