greaves

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• /ɡɹivz/
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• homophone: greaves
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Topographic surname for someone who lived near a brushwood or thicket, from Old English grǣfe (“brushwood, thicket”).

From Low German (compare German Low German Greev, Greve (“greaves”)), from Middle Low German grêve, from Old Saxon *griovo, from Proto-West Germanic *greubō (“roughage, brushwood, kindling”), perhaps related to *grubaz (“rough, coarse”), the root of German Griebe (“greaves, crackling”). Possibly related to gruff. Also compare Old High German grob (“coarse”) (modern German grob).

19 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: пръжки (prǎžki) — residue from animal fat
• Danish: fedtegrever — residue from animal fat
• Dutch: kaantjes — residue from animal fat
• French: cretons — residue from animal fat
• French: grattons — residue from animal fat
• Galician: roxóns — residue from animal fat
• German: Grieben — residue from animal fat
• German: Grammeln — residue from animal fat
• Hungarian: tepertő — residue from animal fat
• Hungarian: töpörtyű — residue from animal fat
• Italian: ciccioli — residue from animal fat
• Macedonian: џимиринка (džimirinka) — residue from animal fat
• Macedonian: пршка (prška) — residue from animal fat
• Macedonian: клиса (klisa) — residue from animal fat
• Polish: skwarka — residue from animal fat
• Portuguese: torresmo m rojões — residue from animal fat
• Russian: шква́рки (škvárki) — residue from animal fat
• Spanish: chicharrones — residue from animal fat
• Swedish: grevar — residue from animal fat