grunten

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English grunt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡrʏn.tə(n)/
  • Hyphenation: grun‧ten

Verb

grunten

  1. (intransitive, transitive, music) to shout death growls, to growl [from ca. 1990s]
    • 1994 August 31, “Ook tweede Lowlands geslaagd”, in De Telegraaf, page 16:
      Zoals de snoeiharde sm-metal van de Genitorturers uit de Verenigde Staten. De als een kerel gruntende zangeres Gen bracht tot groot genoegen van het publiek voorverwarmde tepelklemmen, tong- en navelpiercings aan bij haar bandleden, die daarna ook nog eens met een leren zweep werden afgerost.
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Inflection

Conjugation of grunten (weak)
infinitive grunten
past singular gruntte
past participle gegrunt
infinitive grunten
gerund grunten n
present tense past tense
1st person singular gruntgruntte
2nd person sing. (jij) gruntgruntte
2nd person sing. (u) gruntgruntte
2nd person sing. (gij) gruntgruntte
3rd person singular gruntgruntte
plural gruntengruntten
subjunctive sing.1 gruntegruntte
subjunctive plur.1 gruntengruntten
imperative sing. grunt
imperative plur.1 grunt
participles gruntendgegrunt
1) Archaic.

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old English grunnettan, from Proto-West Germanic *grunnattjan, from Proto-Germanic *grunnatjaną. Equivalent to groynen + -ten.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡruntən/

Verb

grunten (third-person singular simple present grunteth, present participle gruntynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative grunte, past participle grunt)

  1. To grunt or groan as or like an animal; to make beastly calls.
  2. To moan; to make a groaning or moaning sound.
  3. (rare) To grind teeth together.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • English: grunt
  • Scots: grunt

References

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