Noun: greyn
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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But first he cheweth greyn and lycorys / To smellen sweete, er he hadde kembd his heer. (Though first he chews spices and licorice, / To smell sweet before he'd combed his hair.) [a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knight's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 3690–3691:]
Nouns inflected like greyn
wheston,
scarth,
scough,
schour,
scherd,
scheld,
schalk,
schaft,
smythy,
bombard,
bochous,
hereditament,
syngyng,
peretre,
bastard,
conquest,
comaundour,
patroun,
pacient,
playing, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French grain, from Latin grānum, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm. Doublet of corn. See: Latin Nouns '
grānum'.
Verbs referencing "greyn"
English Nouns
grain.
Translations