# grima
## Albanian
### Noun

grima
* inflection of grimë:
** definite nominative singular
** indefinite nominative/accusative plural

## French
### Pronunciation

* Homophones: grimas, grimât

### Verb

grima
* third-person singular past historic of grimer

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* grimo

### Etymology

Probably from Gothic, from Proto-Germanic *grīmô (“mask”). Cognate with Portuguese grima and Spanish grima.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɡɾimɐ]

### Noun

grima f (plural grimas)
* fear, creeps, uneasiness
** 1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:Ay Jesús! miña Joiña! non falemos nesto mais, que dá grima sò o pensalo, Deus vos garde bo é san. Santiago. Febreiro doce Aÿ! que non sey que me dà, que me esfraquezo de todo, è non podo vafexàr.Oh, Jesus! My Jewel! Let's not talk about this anymore because it gives one the creeps just to think about it. God take care of you, safe and sound. Santiago, February twelve Oh!, I don't know what happens to me I'm totally weakening and I can't breath
** 1777, anonymous author, Urca, page 5:foi tal o terror que concibeu neste aflicto, que cando se vai lavar hastr'a auga lle dá grimohe built such a terror because of that affliction, that when he's going to wash himself even the water gives him the creeps

#### Derived terms

* dar grima
* grimar

### References

* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “grimo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

### Further reading

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “grimo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “grima”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “grima”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “grima”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Lower Sorbian
### Alternative forms

* grimjo

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡrʲima/

### Verb

grima
* third-person singular present of grimaś

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

grima f
* definite singular of grime

### Verb

grima
* past tense of grime
* supine of grime

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²ɡriː.mɑ/

### Noun

grima f
* definite singular of grime
* (pre-2012) alternative form of grime

### Verb

grima (present tense grimar, past tense grima, past participle grima, passive infinitive grimast, present participle grimande, imperative grima/grim)
* a-infinitive form of grime

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *grīmō, from Proto-Germanic *grīmô (“mask”). Cognate with Old Frisian grīma, Old Saxon grīmo, Old High German grīmo, Old Norse gríma, Gothic *𐌲𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌼𐌰 (*greima).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡriː.mɑ/

### Noun

grīma m
* mask
* helmet, visor
* specter, ghost; apparition

#### Declension

Weak:

#### Derived terms

* beadu-gríma, beado-gríma (“war-mask, hemlmet”)
* grím-helm (“helmet with visor”)
* here-gríma

#### Descendants

* Middle English: grim, grime
** English: grime

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Gothic *𐌲𐍂𐌹𐌼𐌼𐍃 (*grimms), from Proto-Germanic *grimmaz (“grim, angry, fierce”). Cognate with English grim.

### Noun

grima f (uncountable)
* disgust, uneasiness

#### Derived terms

* dar grima

### Further reading

* “grima”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10