greve
Danish
/ɡreːvə/
noun
Definitions
- count a nobleman, of the highest rank in Denmark, since 1849 without privileges, equivalent to a British l
Etymology
Derived from Middle Low German grēve derived from *garāfijō (officer, official).
Origin
*garāfijō
Gloss
officer, official
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- greeve English
- greeveship English
- hogreeve English
- landreeve English
- reeve English
- sheriff English
- shire-reeve English
- unreeve English
- greve Norwegian Bokmål
- grefve Swedish
- greve Swedish
- grevinna Swedish
- greve Norwegian Nynorsk
- gerefa Old English
- rēfa Old English
- gryve Middle English
- reve Middle English
- greifi Old Norse
- grafio Old High German
- *garāfijō gmw-pro
- gravo Old Dutch
- grēve Middle Low German