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gris

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See also: grís and gris'

Asturian

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Adjective

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gris (epicene, plural grises)

  1. grey / gray

Noun

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gris m (plural grises)

  1. grey / gray

Basque

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Spanish gris.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ɡris̺/ [ɡris̺]
    • Audio:(file)
    • Rhymes: -is̺
    • Hyphenation: gris

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    gris (comparative grisago, superlative grisen, excessive grisegi)

    1. gray / grey
    2. dreary
    3. sad
    4. neutral (having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality)

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    gris inan

    1. gray / grey

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    Colors in Basque · koloreak (layout · text)
         zuri      gris      beltz
                 gorri              laranja; marroi              hori
                              berde             
                              oztin              urdin
                 ubel              more              arrosa

    Catalan

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    Etymology

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    Derived from Frankish *gris.

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    gris (feminine grisa, masculine plural grisos, feminine plural grises)

    1. grey / gray

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    Noun

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    gris m (plural grisos)

    1. grey / gray

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    Colors in Catalan · colors (layout · text)
         blanc      gris      negre
                 roig, vermell; carmesí              taronja; marró              groc; crema
                 verd llima              verd             
                 cian; xarxet              atzur              blau
                 violat; indi              magenta; lila, porpra              rosa

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    Chavacano

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    Etymology

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    Inherited from Spanish gris (“gray”).

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    gris

    1. thick bluish-gray cloth good for working clothes

    Cornish

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    Etymology

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

    Noun

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    gris m (plural grisys or grisyow)

    1. stair, step

    Mutation

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    Mutation of gris
    radical soft aspirate hard mixed
    gris ris unchanged kris unchanged

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

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    “gris” in Cornish Dictionary / Gerlyver Kernewek, Akademi Kernewek.

    Danish

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    Etymology 1

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    Derived from Old Norse gríss.

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    gris c (singular definite grisen, plural indefinite grise)

    1. pig (a mammal of the family Suidae)
      Synonym: svin
    2. pork (meat from a pig)
      Synonyms: grisekød, svin, svinekød
    3. (chiefly in definite singular) railcar or other local train
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    Declension of gris
    common
    gender
    singular plural
    indefinite definite indefinite definite
    nominative gris grisen grise grisene
    genitive gris' grisens grises grisenes
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    Etymology 2

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    Verb

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    gris

    1. imperative of grise

    Dutch

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    gris

    1. inflection of grissen:
      1. first-person singular present indicative
      2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
      3. imperative

    French

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    Etymology

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    Derived from Old French or Old Occitan, both from Frankish *grīs, from Proto-Germanic *grīsaz (“grey”). Akin to Old High German grīs (“grey”) (German greis) and Dutch grijs (“grey”). More at grizzle.

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    gris (feminine grise, masculine plural gris, feminine plural grises)

    1. grey / gray
    2. (colloquial) drunk, tipsy
      • 1924, Emmanuel Bove, Mes amis [My Friends]‎[1], Paris: Émile-Paul Frères:
        Si je n’avais pas été gris, je n’aurais certes pas étalé mes papiers. Ils ont dû ennuyer Billard.
        If I hadn't been drunk, I certainly wouldn't have displayed my papers. They must have bored Billard.

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    Noun

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    gris m (invariable)

    1. gray / grey

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    • Louisiana Creole: gri
    • Mauritian Creole: gri
    • Réunion Creole French: gri
    • Seychellois Creole: gri
    • → Greek: γκρι (gkri)
    • → Portuguese: griso
    • → Romanian: gri
    • → Turkish: gri
    • → Vietnamese: ghi

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    Colors in French · couleurs (layout · text)
         blanc      gris      noir
                 rouge; cramoisi, carmin              orange; brun, marron              jaune; crème
                 lime              vert              menthe
                 cyan, turquoise; bleu canard              azur, bleu ciel              bleu
                 violet, lilas; indigo              magenta; pourpre              rose

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    Galician

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    Etymology

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    Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese gris (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Old French gris, from Frankish *grīs, from Proto-Germanic *grīsaz (“grey”).

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    • IPA(key): (standard) /ˈɡɾis/ [ˈɡɾis̺]
    • IPA(key): (gheada) /ˈħɾis/ [ˈħɾis̺]

    Adjective

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    gris

    1. grey / gray
    2. (archaic, of pelts) of squirrel

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    Lombard

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from Occitan gris, from Frankish *gris.

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    gris m (feminine grisa)

    1. grey / gray

    Low German

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    Alternative forms

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    Etymology

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    Cognate with German greis.

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    gris (German Low German)

    1. (in some dialects) grey / gray

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    Middle English

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    Etymology 1

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    Borrowed from Old Norse gríss, potentially from or related to Proto-Germanic *grīsaz (“grey”).

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    gris (plural grises)

    1. A young pig, grice.
    2. pork (the meat of such a pig)
    3. A boar.
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    Noun

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    gris (plural grises)

    1. alternative form of grys

    Norman

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    Alternative forms

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    Etymology

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    Derived from Old French or Old Occitan, in either case from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰregʰwos (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to glow, shine”).

    Adjective

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    gris m

    1. grey / gray
      • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎[2], page 534:
        Rouage ser, gris matin, ch'est la jouaie du pélerin.
        A red evening and a grey morning are the pilgrim's joy.
    2. (Jersey) drunk
      Synonyms: bédé-ouinne, blindé, bragi, bringuesingue, chonmé, en bouaisson, envitoué, gâté d'béthe, ivre, souîn, soûl

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    Norwegian Bokmål

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    Etymology 1

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    Derived from Old Norse gríss.

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    gris m (definite singular grisen, indefinite plural griser, definite plural grisene)

    1. pig
      Synonym: svin
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    Verb

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    gris

    1. imperative of grise

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    Norwegian Nynorsk

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    Etymology

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    Inherited from Old Norse gríss.

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    gris m (definite singular grisen, indefinite plural griser or grisar, definite plural grisene or grisane)

    1. pig
      Synonym: svin

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    Historical inflection of gris
    singular plural
    indefinite definite indefinite definite
    Aasen1 ein Gris Grisen Griser Griserne
    1901 griser (grisir) griserne (grisine)
    1917 griser grisene
    1938 grisar grisane
    1986 griser [grisar] grisene [grisane]
    2012 (current) ein gris grisen grisar, griser grisane, grisene
    other grisi grisin
    • Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard.
    • Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier.
    • Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen.
    • 1Nouns were capitalised for most of the 19th century.

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    Old French

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from Frankish *grīs, from Proto-Germanic *grīsaz (“grey”).

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    gris m (feminine grise)

    1. gray / gray

    Old Galician-Portuguese

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    Etymology

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      Borrowed from Old French gris, from Frankish *grīs, from Proto-Germanic *grīsaz (“grey”).

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      gris

      1. grey / gray (having a colour between white and black)

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      Colors in Old Galician-Portuguese · coores, colores (layout · text)
           branco, blanco, alvo      gris      negro, preto
                   vermelho              castanho              amarelo
                                verde             
                                             azur
                                cardẽo              rosa

      Portuguese

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      Etymology

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      Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese gris, from Old French gris, from Proto-Germanic *grīsaz (“grey”).

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      • Rhymes: (Brazil) -is, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -iʃ
      • Hyphenation: gris

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      gris (invariable)

      1. grey / gray (having a colour between white and black)
        Synonyms: cinza, cinzento, acinzentado
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      gris m (uncountable)

      1. grey / gray (the colour between white and black)
        Synonym: cinza

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      Colors in Portuguese · cores (layout · text)
           branco, alvo      cinza, gris,
      cinzento
           preto, negro
                   vermelho,
      encarnado, rubro,
      salmão; carmim
                   laranja,
      cor de laranja; castanho,
      marrom
                   amarelo; creme,
      ocre
                   verde-limão              verde              verde-água; verde-menta
                   ciano,
      turquesa; azul-petróleo
                   azul-bebê / azul-bebé, azul-celeste              azul, índigo, anil
                   violeta,
      lilás
                   magenta; roxo, púrpura              rosa,
      cor-de-rosa, rosa-choque

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      Romanian

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      Noun

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      gris n (uncountable)

      1. alternative form of griș

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      singular only indefinite definite
      nominative-accusative gris grisul
      genitive-dative gris grisului
      vocative grisule

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      Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:
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      Etymology

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        Derived from Occitan or Old Occitan gris, from Frankish *gris, from Proto-Germanic *grīsaz (“grey”).

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        gris m or f (masculine and feminine plural grises)

        1. grey / gray
          materia gris ― grey matter
          zona gris ― grey area
        2. boring, dull
          Ella lleva una vida gris.
          She has a dull life.
        3. overcast, cloudy
          Hay poca luz porque el día está gris.
          There's little light because the day is overcast.
        4. morally ambiguous
          Juan de Galicia es un personaje muy gris.
          Juan de Galicia is a very morally ambiguous character.
          • 1912 April 17, “Aproposito de campanas”, in Salvador Canals, editor, Mundo gráfico: Revista popular ilustrada‎[3], number 25, page 4:
            ¿qué mucho que abunden tanto las desengañadas, ese tipo de mujer moralmente gris, ni mala ni buena, ociosa é inútil desde el punto de vista social, que da á la Iglesia la beata; á una intelectualidad exacerbada, la feminista, y á la revolución, las fieras que ponen las notas de mayor violencia en las convulsiones populares?
            (please add an English translation of this quotation)
          • 1977, La otra opinión: editoriales de El Siglo, Volume 2, Editorial Revista Colombiana, page 164:
            Hay zonas de la administración en que por su índole, porque su campo está demasiado próximo a la delincuencia, la corrupción se presenta al mismo tiempo por abajo y por arriba y se crea esa moral gris de la que hemos hablado, en donde lo ilícito es lo "natural" y sólo se distingue por grados que generalmente van acuerdo con la 164.
            (please add an English translation of this quotation)
          • 2015, Vicente Palermo, La alegría y la pasión: Relatos brasileños y argentinos en perspectiva comparada, Katz, page 133:
            Aunque el jeitinho es siempre un instrumento que posibilita la quiebra de las reglas (de modo particularista), el problema es que ante asimetrias sociales y leyes que no se pueden cambiar, el jeitinho es una adaptación, equivale a una zona moral gris entre lo “correcto” y lo “incorrecto”.
            (please add an English translation of this quotation)
          • 2020, Serna Dimas Adrián, Poética de la tierra caliente: Hecho colonial, mitología nacional y violencia en la cuenca media del río Magdalena, Colombia, Editorial Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, page 388:
            León es un personaje gris: es un defensor de que la mina es sagrada porque es del Gobierno, es un estricto persecutor de quienes pretenden asaltarla, pero igualmente.
            (please add an English translation of this quotation)
          • 2021, Silvia Magro Vela, Belén Puebla Martínez, Nuria Navarro Sierra, editors, Ficcionando sinergias. Los profesionales se buscan en la ficción televisiva española, Editorial Dykinson, page 94:
            Asi, junto al heroico abogado defensor del inocente y al artero defensor del culpable, ha aparecido el personaje gris de moral autonoma —cuestionable, si se quiere, pero real— que puede llegar a convertirse en protagonista.
            (please add an English translation of this quotation)
          • 2022, César Augusto Pires Torres, Vivencias cantadas en prosas y relatos, Editorial Autores de Argentina, page 116:
            Ese es el que bebe de tu vaso el agua cristalina que con su sentir lo convierte en turbia y el personaje extremo, nunca sabe como va a jugar ese personaje gris, o si lo sabe y no se juega. Porque para él su jugada no es blanca ni oscura, es el gris y entonces aparecen sus actitudes educadas que se llaman hipocresia. Y el estudio de su diagnéstico certero puede consumirte afios de vida, porque siempre hace que juega el papel del correcto y correctamente hipécrita.
            (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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        Noun

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        gris m (plural grises)

        1. grey / gray

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        Colors in Spanish · colores (layout · text)
             blanco      gris      negro
                     rojo; carmín, carmesí              naranja, anaranjado; marrón              amarillo; crema
                     lima              verde              menta
                     cian, turquesa; azul-petróleo              celeste, cerúleo              azul
                     violeta; añil, índigo              magenta; morado, púrpura              rosa, rosado

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        Swedish

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        Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
        Wikipedia sv
        grisar som vältrar sig i lera [pigs wallowing in mud]

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        Inherited from Old Norse gríss.

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        gris c

        1. pig (a mammal of the genus Sus)
          Synonym: svin
          Grisen säger nöff
          The pig says oink
          Grisen grymtade
          The pig grunted
          Grisens ungar kallas (gris)kultingar / spädgrisar
          Baby pigs ["the pig's young" – calling animals bebisar (“babies”) is unidiomatic in Swedish] are called piglets
        2. a nasty or dirty person
          Synonym: (leans more toward contemptible jerk) svin
          Du är en riktig gris.
          You are such a pig.
        3. (slang, derogatory) a pig (cop, police officer)
          Synonyms: snut, byling, polis
        4. (slang, derogatory, in the singular definite "grisen") the pigs (the police, collectively)
          Synonyms: aina, farbror blå, bängen, snuten, bylingen, polisen

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        Tok Pisin

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        Etymology

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        Inherited from English grease.

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        gris

        1. lipid (oil, fat, grease, etc.)
        2. flattery
          • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 3:1:
            God, Bikpela i bin wokim olgeta animal, tasol i no gat wanpela bilong ol inap winim snek long tok gris. Na snek i askim meri olsem, “Ating God i tambuim yutupela long kaikai pikinini bilong olgeta diwai bilong gaden, a?”
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        Welsh

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        Etymology

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        Borrowed from Middle English grece, from Old French grez, plural of gré, from Latin gradus. Doublet of gradd.

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        gris f or m (plural grisiau)

        1. step, stair

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        Mutated forms of gris
        radical soft nasal aspirate
        gris ris ngris unchanged

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