Etymograph

English

graith

Graith comes from Old Norse greiða ‘to make ready, prepare, arrange, disentangle’, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *garaidaz.

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*garaidaz‘ready, prepared’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanic, derivedc. 500 BCE–200 CE*garaidijaną‘to prepare, put in order’reconstructed
  3. Old Norsec. 800–1350greiða‘to make ready, prepare, arrange, disentangle’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500graithen
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1748graith

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*garaidaz‘ready, prepared’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanic, derivedc. 500 BCE–200 CE*garaidijaną‘to prepare, put in order’reconstructed
  3. Old Norsec. 800–1350greiða‘to make ready, prepare, arrange, disentangle’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500graithen
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1748graith

Earliest quotation: 1748, The Life and Death of the Piper of Kilbarchan; or, the epita: “At fairs he play'd before the spearmen, All gaily…”

Every English word from Proto-Germanic *garaidaz

Today it means

verb To make ready; prepare; put in order; make fit for use.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *garaidaz / graith

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