gretan

grētan

1. romanization of 𐌲𐍂𐌴𐍄𐌰𐌽

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡreː.tɑn/

From Proto-West Germanic *grōtijan, from Proto-Germanic *grōtijaną.

• grœ̄tan — Anglian, early Kentish

grētan (West Saxon, late Kentish)

1. to greet, address
   • 10th century, The Wanderer:

     þonne māga ġemynd · mōd ġeondhweorfeð,
     grēteð glīwstafum, · ġeorne ġeondsċēawað
     seċġa ġeseldan. · Swimmað oft on weġ.

     when mind goes through memory of kinsmen,
     greets with mirths, eagerly looks through
     comrades of men. They often swim away.

2. to say goodbye, bid farewell
3. to touch, handle
4. to have to do with a person
   1. to treat a person medically
   2. (euphemistic) to have sex with a person
5. to attack or lay hands on someone

• Middle English: greten
  • English: greet
  • Scots: grete, greit

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “grétan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

From Proto-Germanic *grētaną.

grētan (Anglian, late Kentish)

1. alternative form of grǣtan