gretan

== Gothic == === Romanization === grētan romanization of 𐌲𐍂𐌴𐍄𐌰𐌽 == Old English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɡreː.tɑn/ Rhymes: -eː.tɑn === Etymology 1 === From Proto-West Germanic *grōtijan, from Proto-Germanic *grōtijaną. ==== Alternative forms ==== grœ̄tan — Anglian, early Kentish ==== Verb ==== grētan (West Saxon, late Kentish) to greet, address to say goodbye, bid farewell to touch, handle to have to do with a person to treat a person medically (euphemistic) to have sex with a person to attack or lay hands on someone ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Descendants ===== Middle English: greten English: greet Scots: grete, greit ===== References ===== Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “grétan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. === Etymology 2 === From Proto-Germanic *grētaną. ==== Verb ==== grētan (Anglian, late Kentish) alternative form of grǣtan ===== Conjugation =====