GRUNR

(-ar, -ir), m. suspicion, doubt, uncertainty (e-m er grunr á e-u);

grafa grun á (um e-t), to suspect;

hafa grun á e-m um e-t, to suspect one of a thing;

e-m leikr grunr á, um e-t, one feels suspicious about a thing;

draga gruni á um e-t, to conceive a suspicion of;

renna grunum á e-t, to doubt, to guess at;

búa um grun, to be suspected;

um grun, by guile (sem þetta væri eigi um grun gört).

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m., pl. ir, [the forms grundr (q. v.) and grunda (q. v.) seem to indicate a double final, viz. grunnr and grunna; as to the sense, suspicion may be metaph. derived from a shoal or ground, and grunr may be akin to grunn, grunnr; else phrases such as grafa grun could scarcely be explained: no special word answering to grunr appears in the Saxon or Germ.]:—suspicion, Grág. i. 263, Ld. 262, Lv. 21, Fms. i. 58, ii. 87, x. 335, Hkr. ii. 267: the phrase, grafa grun á um e-t, to ‘dig the ground’ for a thing, to suspect, Bs. i. 871.