- gærshoppa
- m (-n/-n) grasshopper, locust
Old to modern English dictionary. 2013.
gærshoppa
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græshoppa — see gærshoppa … Old to modern English dictionary
grasshopper — (n.) mid 14c. (late 13c. as a surname), earlier greshoppe (c.1200), from O.E. gærshoppa; see GRASS (Cf. grass) + HOP (Cf. hop). Cf. M.Swed. gräshoppare, Ger. Grashüpfer. As a term of reproach, from Eccl. xii:5. Also recorded c.1300 as a name for… … Etymology dictionary
