gry

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹaɪ̯/

From Middle English gryen (“to shudder, shake, or convulse”). Compare grue.

gry (third-person singular simple present gries, present participle grying, simple past and past participle gried)

1. (dialectal) To have a slight bout or fit of ague (chills or shaking due to cold or fever).

gry (plural gries)

1. A fit of ague.

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gry (plural gries)

1. (archaic) A small amount.
2. (archaic) One hundredth of an inch in the decimal system of measurement devised by John Locke

Abbreviation of gray.

• gry.

gry (plural grys)

1. Abbreviation of gray or grey (the color)

gry (not comparable)

1. Abbreviation of grey or gray (the color)

• Gyr, RGY

From Ancient Greek γρῦ (grû).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ɡryː/, [ɡryː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɡri/, [ɡriː]

grȳ n (indeclinable)

1. the least amount; scrap, crumb
2. dirt under the fingernails

• “gry”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gry in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

gry (imperative gry, present tense gryr, passive -, simple past grydde, past participle grydd, present participle gryende)

1. to dawn, begin to get light (of a day)

• “gry” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

gry (present tense gryr, past tense grydde, past participle grytt/grydd, passive infinitive gryast, present participle gryande, imperative gry)

1. to dawn (a day)

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrɘ/
• Rhymes: -ɘ
• Syllabification: gry

gry

1. inflection of gra:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Related to gryt, gryta, and English grit, all from Proto-Germanic *greutą.

gry n

1. grit (personal trait; in the expression gott gry), courage, spirit

   Det är gott gry i dig!

   Attaboy!

From Old Norse grýjandi (“in the dawn”), ultimately related to the root of grå.

gry (present gryr, preterite grydde, supine grytt, imperative gry)

1. to dawn
   • 1915, Dan Andersson, Kolvaktarens Visor, Kolvaktaren

     Snart är morgon gryende,
     då gå jättar flyende
     ned till Hanga hed. […]

     Soon the morning is dawning
     then giants go fleeing
     down to Hanga heath. […]

   innan en ny dag gryr

   before a new day dawns

• gryning

• gry in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• gry in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• gry in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

From Middle English grey, from Old English grǣġ, from Proto-West Germanic *grāu.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɾiː/

gry

1. grey

gry

1. grey

• greeleen

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 43

Colors in Yola · [Term?] (layout · text)

whit, baun	gry	bhlock, blaak
reed	yulloureed	yullou, ghou, buee
*leem green	green	*meente
blúegreen	*asure	blúe
	purple	rowse