grys

See also: Gryś

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch grijs.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

grys (attributive grys or (chiefly figurative senses) gryse, comparative gryser, superlative gryste)

1. grey/gray
2. very old and long ago
3. bleak, sombre

Inflection

Inflection of grys

	predicative	attributive	independent		partitive
			singular	plural
positive	grys	grys, gryse	gryse	gryses	grys
comparative	gryser		grysere	gryseres	grysers
superlative	gryste			grystes	—

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French gris, from Vulgar Latin *grīsus, from Proto-Germanic *grīsaz.

Alternative forms

• gris, grice, greys, greyis, grijs, griis, gryse, grise

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡriːs/

Noun

grys (plural gryses)

1. gray, grey
2. grey fur

Descendants

• English: gris (obsolete)

References

• “grīs, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

Etymology 2

Noun

grys (plural gryses)

1. Alternative form of gris

Etymology 3

Noun

grys

1. Alternative form of gras

Middle French

Noun

grys m (uncountable)

1. gray

Adjective

grys m (feminine singular gryse, masculine plural grys, feminine plural gryses)

1. gray

Descendants

• French: gris

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ɡrɨːs/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ɡriːs/

Noun

grys

1. Soft mutation of crys.

Mutation

Mutated forms of crys

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
crys	grys	nghrys	chrys

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.