Grame vs Grama - What's the difference?
grame | grama |
(obsolete) Anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.
(obsolete) Sorrow; grief; misery.
* c. 1557 (published), Sir Thomas Wyatt, And Wilt Thou Leave me Thus? , lines 3 and 4:
(obsolete) To vex; grill; make angry or sorry.
(obsolete) To grieve; be sorry.
A type of grass,
* 2005 , Tom Drury, "Path Lights", in The New Yorker , 17 October 2005
As a verb grame
is .As a noun grama is
a type of grass,.grame
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) grame, gram, grome, from (etyl) . Related to (l).Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(-)- (Chaucer)
- (Chaucer)
- To save thee from the blame / Of all my grief and grame .
Etymology 2
From (etyl) gramen, gramien, from (etyl) gramian, .Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(gram)grama
English
Noun
- Every few years, Ingrid goes back to take a look, even though all that’s left is the old bleached shell of a house, surrounded by blue grama grass and tall trees with pale bark and waxy leaves.