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語源

grimm +‎ -līċ

形容詞

grimlīċ

1. grim, fierce, cruel, severe, bloody
   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     Wearð þæt unġemetlīċe myċle ġefeoht betwuh Crētense, ⁊ Atheniense, þǣm folcum. ⁊ þā Crētense hæfdon ðone grimlēċan siġe, ⁊ ealle þā æþelestan bearn þāra Athēniensa hȳ ġenomon, ⁊ sealdon þǣm Mīnōtaurō tō etanne, þæt wæs healf mon healf lēo.

     There was an immensely great war between the Cretans and the Athenians. And the Cretans won a grim victory, and they took all the most noble of the Athenian children and gave them to the Minotaur, who was half man and half lion, for him to eat.

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参照

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “grimlíc”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.