> > I thought that "gróandi" more specifically meant "the growing one"?
It does indeed have this meaning in Alvíssmál stanza 10 where it's
used as one of various names for the Earth:
"Jörð heitir með mönnum,
en með ásum fold,
kalla vega vanir,
ígrn jötnar,
alfar gróandi,
kalla aur uppregin."
"It's called Earth among men,
Ground among the Æsir,
the Vanir call it Roads,
the Giants: Evergreen,
the elves: Growing (One),
the High Powers (i.e. gods) call it Clay."
Besides this, there is a weak masculine noun 'gróandi' meaning
"growing season" in Modern Icelandic. But 'gróandi' is also the
present participle of 'gróa'.
Present participles in Old Norse are formed by adding -andi (declined
like comparative adjectives) to the present stem. They have various
uses, e.g. (examples from Faarlund: The Syntax of Old Norse) as
adjectives:
farandi konur "travelling women"
hon gekk þegjandi at Flosa "she went silently (without saying a word)
to Flosi"
Occasionally to indicate future tense with the auxiliary 'verða':
Magnús varð henni ekki unnandi "Magnus did not come to love her."
And sometimes as as what's called a gerundive:
hverir hlutir elskandi eru "which things should be loved"
Then there is a class of agent nouns derived from present participles.
These are declined as weak masculine nouns in the singular but as
consonant stems in the plural:
N gefandi gefendr
A gefanda gefendr
G gefanda gefanda
D gefanda geföndum
"giver"
Hope that helps,
LN
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wrote:
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> I thought that "gróandi" more specifically meant "the growing one"?
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
>
> --- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, Valvinir Grágrímr <Valvinir@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Heill!
> > > Can someone assist or advise me on a VERB matter?
> > > What is the Present Participle of GRÓA (to grow)?
> >
> > gróandi
> >
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