What is the name meaning of GREIF. Phrases containing GREIF
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English
English : occupational name from Middle English greyve ‘steward’, from Old Norse greifi or Low German grēve (see Graf).English : topographic name, a variant of Grove.French : topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of gravelly soil, from Old French grave ‘gravel’ (of Celtic origin).North German : either from the northern form of Graf, but more commonly a topographic name from Middle Low German grave ‘ditch’, ‘moat’, ‘channel’, or a habitational name from any of several places in northern Germany named with this word.
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English (Norfolk)
English (Norfolk) : from an Old Norse personal name Greifi, a byname from Old Norse greifi, Old Danish or Old Swedish grefe ‘count’, ‘earl’.French : nickname from Old French grief ‘sad’.German : variant spelling of Greif 1.
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German : habitational name from a house distinguished by the sign of a gryphon, Middle High German grīf(e) (Old High German grīf(o), from Late Latin gryphus, Greek gryps, of Assyrian origin).German : nickname for a grasping man, the gryphon in folk etymology having come to be associated with Middle High German grīfen ‘to grasp or snatch’.English : variant of Grief.
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English : topographic name for someone who lived in a deep valley, from Middle English grype ‘kettle’, ‘caldron’ (Old English gripu).German : variant of Greif 1.
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English : topographic name for someone living near a pit or hollow, from Old Norse gryfja ‘pit’, ‘hollow’, or a habitational name from Griff in Warwickshire, Griffe in Derbyshire, or Griff Farm in Rievaulx, North Yorkshire, all probably named with this word.Welsh : short form of Griffith.Possibly also a reduced form of Irish McGriff.German : variant of Greif 1.
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English : from a Norman personal name Grimbald, composed of the Germanic elements grīm ‘mask’, ‘helmet’ + bald, bold ‘bold’, ‘brave’.Respelling of German Gribbel, from a pet form of a personal name formed with Greif.
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