different between gery vs gry

Middle English

Alternative forms

• geri, geery, gere, guery, guerry, gire, guyry

Etymology

See gere (“childish behaviour”) +? -y.

Adjective

gery

1. Subject to frequent and sudden changes; variable, unpredictable.
2. (of a person) Changeable; fickle.
   • 1385, Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, "Knight's Tale"

     Right so kan gery Venus ouercaste The hertes of hir folk.

3. (of clothing) Faddish
   • 1399, Mum and the Sothsegger

     How þe while turneth With gyuleris, joyffull for here gery jaces.

Synonyms

• gerful

References

• “geri, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 22 June 2018.

English

Etymology 1

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Noun

gry (plural gries)

1. (archaic) A small amount.
2. (archaic) One hundredth of an inch in the decimal system of measurement devised by John Locke

Etymology 2

Abbreviation

Alternative forms

• gry.

Noun

gry (plural grys)

1. Abbreviation of gray or grey (the color)

Adjective

gry (not comparable)

1. Abbreviation of grey or gray (the color)

Anagrams

• Gyr, RGY

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??? (grû).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ry?/, [?ry?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ri/, [?ri]

Noun

gr? n (indeclinable)

1. the least amount; scrap, crumb
2. dirt under the fingernails

References

• gry in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gry in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

gry (imperative gry, present tense gryr, passive -, simple past grydde, past participle grydd, present participle gryende)

1. (of a day) to dawn, begin to get light

References

• “gry” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

gry (present tense gryr, past tense grydde, past participle grydd/grytt, passive infinitive gryast, present participle gryande, imperative gry)

1. to dawn (a day)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?/

Noun

gry

1. inflection of gra:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Swedish

Etymology 1

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

Noun

gry n

1. grit (personal trait; in the expression gott gry), courage, spirit

Etymology 2

Cognate with grå.

Verb

gry (present gryr, preterite grydde, supine grytt, imperative gry)

1. to dawn
   • 1915, Dan Andersson, Kolvaktarens Visor, Kolvaktaren

Conjugation

Related terms

• gryning

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English grey, from Old English gr??, from Proto-Germanic *gr?waz.

Adjective

gry

1. grey

Noun

gry

1. grey

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , 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, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN