Grip

Grip

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English grip.

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):(file)

Noun

Grip m (strong, genitive Grips, no plural)

  1. grip, traction (ground adhesion of a tyre)
    Synonyms: Bodenhaftigkeit, Bodenhaftung

Declension

Declension of Grip [sg-only, masculine, strong]
singular
indef. def. noun
nominative ein der Grip
genitive eines des Grips
dative einem dem Grip
accusative einen den Grip

Further reading

  • “Grip”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German)
  • “Grip” in Duden online

Low German

Etymology

From Middle Low German grīp, from an Old Saxon [Term?] (“griffin”), from Latin gryphus, from Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps, “griffin”).

This spelling coinsides with Old Norse gripr (Swedish grip; also Breton gripi); via the fairy tale The Griffin, also found in Dutch grijp, grijpvogel, Norwegian fugl grip, and Icelandic gripfugl. Compare with the High German spelling: Old High German grif, German Greif (“griffin”); and Latin spelling: Medieval Latin grȳphō; Old Danish gryph, Danish grif; Norwegian griff (“griffin”); also English griffin.

Noun

Grip

  1. (mythology) griffin (compare standard German Greif)
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