different between gril vs grim

English

Etymology

From Middle English grille, from Old English gril (“harsh”), akin to German grell (“offending the ear or eye, shrill, dazzling”).

Adjective

gril (comparative more gril, superlative most gril)

1. (obsolete) harsh; hard; severe; stern; rough

Anagrams

• Girl, LIRG, girl

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??r?l]

Noun

gril m

1. grill, barbecue

Related terms

• grilovat

Further reading

• gril in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• gril in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dalmatian

Etymology

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

Noun

gril

1. cricket

References

• Bartoli, Matteo Giulio (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?l/
• Hyphenation: gril
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle High German grille (“cricket”) (modern Grille). Perhaps the shift in sense is due to a conflation of crickets with earwigs, involving the popular myth of insects which crawl through the ears to lay eggs in the brain, altering a person's behaviour.

Noun

gril f or m (plural grillen, diminutive grilletje n)

1. caprice, whim, impulse

Etymology 2

Noun

gril m (plural grils)

1. Alternative form of grill

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??il/

Noun

gril m (plural grils)

1. grill (for cooking)

Derived terms

• griller

Related terms

• grille

Further reading

• “gril” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

From Old French greïl, graïl (“gridiron”), from graïlle (“grate, grating”), from Latin cr?t?cula (“gridiron”), diminutive of cr?tis (“hurdle, wickerwork”), from Proto-Indo-European *kor(?)t-, *kr?t- (“to weave, twist, wattle; wicker”).

Noun

gril m (plural grils)

1. (Jersey) grill

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ril]

Noun

gril m (genitive singular grilu, nominative plural grily, genitive plural grilov, declension pattern of dub)

1. grill, barbecue

Declension

Related terms

• grilova?

References

• gril in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French grille.

Noun

gril (definite accusative grili, plural griller)

1. grill (barbecue)

Declension

Synonyms

• ?zgara

References

• gril in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English grill.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?l/

Noun

gril m (plural griliau)

1. grill, broiler

Derived terms

• grilio (“to grill, to broil”)

Mutation

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “gril”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Etymology 1

From Middle English grim, from Old English grim, grimm, from Proto-West Germanic *grimm, from Proto-Germanic *grimmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *g?rem- (“to resound, thunder, grumble, roar”). Noun sense derives from adjective, from 1620s.

Adjective

grim (comparative grimmer, superlative grimmest)

1. dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding

   Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.
2. rigid and unrelenting

   His grim determination enabled him to win.

3. ghastly or sinister

   A grim castle overshadowed the village.

   • 2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “The Hunger Games”, in AV Club:

     In movie terms, it suggests Paul Verhoeven in Robocop/Starship Troopers mode, an R-rated bloodbath where the grim spectacle of children murdering each other on television is bread-and-circuses for the age of reality TV, enforced by a totalitarian regime to keep the masses at bay.

4. disgusting; gross

   - Wanna see the dead rat I found in my fridge?
   - Mate, that is grim!

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

grim (plural grims)

1. (obsolete) specter, ghost, haunting spirit

Verb

grim (third-person singular simple present grims, present participle grimming, simple past and past participle grimmed)

1. (transitive, rare) To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to.

Etymology 2

From Middle English grim, grym, greme, from Old English *grimu, *grimmu, from Proto-Germanic *grimm?? (“anger, wrath”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?rem- (“to resound, thunder, grumble, roar”). Cognate with Middle Dutch grimme, Middle High German grimme f (“anger”), modern German Grimm m.

Noun

grim (uncountable)

1. (archaic) Anger, wrath.

Derived terms

• grimful
• grimless

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [????m?]

Etymology

From Old Norse grimmr, from Proto-Germanic *grimmaz.

Adjective

grim

1. ugly, unsightly
2. nasty

Inflection

Kalasha

Verb

grim

1. taking

Old English

Alternative forms

• grimm

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *grimm.

Cognate with Old Saxon grim, Old High German grim (German grimm, grimmig), Old Norse grimmr (Danish grim, Swedish grym); and with Greek ??????? (chremízo), Old Church Slavonic ??????? (gr?m?ti) (Russian ???????? (gremét?)), Latvian gremt.

Perhaps related in Old Norse to veiled or hooded, Grim is also an alternate name for Odin, who often went around disguised; compare the hooded appearance of The Grim Reaper.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rim/

Adjective

grim

1. fierce, severe, terrible, savage, cruel, angry

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: grim
  • Scots: grim
  • English: grim