Greet vs Griot - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between greet and griot

is that greet is mourning, weeping, lamentation while griot is a west african storyteller who passes on oral traditions; a wandering musician and poet.

As a verb greet

is to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes; to salute; to hail; to welcome; to accost with friendship; to pay respects or compliments to, either personally or through the intervention of another, or by writing or token or greet can be (scotland|northern england) to weep; to cry.

As an adjective greet

is (obsolete|outside|scotland) great.

greet

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) . Compare Old Saxon grotian, Old Frisian greta, Old High German gruozen.

Verb

(en verb)

To address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes; to salute; to hail; to welcome; to accost with friendship; to pay respects or compliments to, either personally or through the intervention of another, or by writing or token.

* 1591 , (William Shakespeare), , Act III, scene 1

My lord, the mayor of London comes to greet you.

* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,

Warwick observed, as they passed through the respectable quarter, that few people who met the girl greeted her, and that some others whom she passed at gates or doorways gave her no sign of recognition; from which he inferred that she was possibly a visitor in the town and not well acquainted.

To come upon, or meet, as with something that makes the heart glad.

* '1707, (Joseph Addison), ''Rosamond , Act I, scene 4

In vain the spring my senses greets .

To accost; to address.

(Alexander Pope)

To meet and give salutations.

* circa 1590 , (William Shakespeare), (Titus Adronicus), Act I, scene 2, line 90

There greet in silence, as the dead are wont, And sleep in peace.

To be perceived by (somebody).

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}

Derived terms

* greeter * meet-and-greet

Etymology 2

From (etyl) (m), .

Adjective

(en adjective)

(obsolete, outside, Scotland) Great.

Etymology 3

From a blend of two (etyl) verbs, (of uncertain ultimate origin), both ‘weep, lament’.

Verb

(Scotland, Northern England) To weep; to cry.

*1933 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Cloud Howe'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), page 312:

*:And damn't! if he didn't take down her bit things and scone her so sore she grat like a bairn [...].

* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, page 2:

My maw went potty and started greeting .

Noun

(-)

Mourning, weeping, lamentation.

References

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Anagrams

* Geordie English Northumbrian English ----

griot

English

(wikipedia griot)

Noun

(en noun)

A West African storyteller who passes on oral traditions; a wandering musician and poet.

* 1995', Françoise Pfaff, ''Sembene, A '''Griot of Modern Times'', in Michael T. Martin (editor), ''Cinemas of the Black Diaspora: Diversity, Dependence, and Oppositionality , page 118,

Griots' may be the chroniclers of an important family or of a group of people — like the Bambara hunters’ ' griot — or itinerant poets and musicians who extol the praises of the person who has hired them for a special festivity.

* 1997 , Paul Stoller, Sensuous Scholarship , page 15,

When ethnographers are asked to read their works to gatherings of Songhay, elders, they, too, are considered griots .

Ethnographers, however, usually consider themselves scholars, not griots'. They prepare themselves for their life's work in a manner altogether different from that of the ' griot .

* 2003 , Melissa Thackway, Interview I: Adama Drabo, director'', in ''Africa Shoots Back: Alternative Perspectives in Sub-Saharan Francophone African Film , page 183,

I decided that it would be better for a griot' to take us back into the legend, rather than me, a contemporary man. '''Griots''' have deeply marked me. I already narrated my first film, ''Ta Dona'', in the same way that a ' griot would have.

A Haitian dish of fried pork.