adj.
'terrible' (Modern English )
PGmc Ancestor
*grama- or *gramjan-
Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)
cp. gremi (n.) ‘wrath, anger’, gremja (v.) 'to anger, provoke'
(ONP cp. gremi (sb.), gremja (vb.))
Other Scandinavian Reflexes
OE Cognate
cp. gram (adj.) ‘angry, wrathful; hostile, fierce; troublesome, distressing’, gremman, gremian (v.) ‘to anger, enrage, infuriate’
Phonological and morphological markers
Summary category
CC1ac
hapax legomenon
Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus
WA 726*