# gry
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡɹaɪ̯/

### Etymology 1

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

#### Verb

gry (third-person singular simple present gries, present participle grying, simple past and past participle gried)
* (dialectal) To have a slight bout or fit of ague (chills or shaking due to cold or fever).

#### Noun

gry (plural gries)
* A fit of ague.

### Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Noun

gry (plural gries)
* (archaic) A small amount.
* (archaic) One hundredth of an inch in the decimal system of measurement devised by John Locke

### Etymology 3

Abbreviation of gray.

#### Alternative forms

* gry.

#### Noun

gry (plural grys)
* Abbreviation of gray or grey (the color)

#### Adjective

gry (not comparable)
* Abbreviation of grey or gray (the color)

### Anagrams

* Gyr, RGY

## Danish
### Etymology 1

Derived from the verb.

#### Noun

gry n (singular definite gryet, not used in plural form)
* (poetic) dawn
    Synonym: daggry

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse grýjandi.

#### Verb

gry (imperative gry, infinitive at gry, present tense gryr, past tense gryede, perfect tense gryet)
* to dawn
    Synonym: dæmre
** (figurative) to appear, emerge

##### Conjugation

activepassive
present
gryer
gryes
past
gryede
gryedes
infinitive
gry
gryes
imperative
gry
participle
present
gryende
past
gryet (auxiliary verb have or være)
gerund
gryen :

### References

* “gry” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Latin
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek γρῦ (grû).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈɡryː/, [ˈɡryː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈɡri/, [ˈɡriː]

### Noun

grȳ n (indeclinable)
* the least amount; scrap, crumb
* dirt under the fingernails

### References

* “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, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

gry (imperative gry, present tense gryr, passive -, simple past grydde, past participle grydd, present participle gryende)
* to dawn, begin to get light (of a day)

### References

* “gry” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Verb

gry (present tense gryr, past tense grydde, past participle grytt/grydd, passive infinitive gryast, present participle gryande, imperative gry)
* to dawn (a day)

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡrɘ/
* Rhymes: -ɘ
* Syllabification: gry

### Noun

gry
* inflection of gra:
** genitive singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative plural

## Swedish
### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

gry n
* grit (personal trait; in the expression gott gry), courage, spirit
    Det är gott gry i dig!Attaboy!

### Etymology 2

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

#### Verb

gry (present gryr, preterite grydde, supine grytt, imperative gry)
* 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 gryrbefore a new day dawns

##### Conjugation

$^1$ Archaic. $^2$ Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

##### Related terms

* gryning

### References

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

## Yola
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡriː/

### Adjective

gry
* grey

### Noun

gry
* grey

#### Derived terms

* greeleen

### References

* 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, ghou |
| reed | yulloureed | yullou, buee |
| *leem green | green | *meente |
| blúegreen | *asure | blúe |
| | purple | rowse |