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語源 1

From German and Swedish Greta, a contraction of Margareta.

固有名詞

Greta

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
   • 2015, Janice Dickson, Herbert Peppard: The Eternal Man, FriesenPress, →ISBN:

     Herb and Greta poured through “name” books and the only name they could agree on was “Rosalie.” Greta told Herb that she didn't want her daughter's name to end in a “lie,” and so they named her Rosalee.

派生語

語源 2

From Old Norse grjót + a.

固有名詞

Greta

1. A river in Cumbria, England, which joins the Derwent at Keswick.
   • 1961 October, 'Voyageur', “The Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 601:

     After we have crossed the Glenderamackin stream, which drains the northern slopes of Saddleback, and the latter has united with the St. John's Beck to form the Greta, however, we see ahead the miniature canyon the Greta has hollowed out for itself, and into the depth of which the train now descends.

2. A river in County Durham, England, which joins the Tees, and which was originally in the North Riding of Yorkshire.
3. A river in North Yorkshire and Lancashire, England, which joins the Lune.
4. A minor river in north Canterbury, New Zealand, which flows into the Hurunui River, and named after one of the North Yorkshire rivers.
5. Two places in Australia thought to be named after the Cumbrian river:
   1. A small town in the Hunter Region of New South Wales.
   2. A locality in the Rural City of Wangaratta, Victoria.

派生語

• Greta Bridge (bridge and hamlet)

参照

アナグラム

• 'Gater, Gater, ergat-, grate, great, great-, retag, targe, terga