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• Grani
  Grani

  noun

  (in theVolsunga Saga ) the horse of Sigurd.
• grani-
  grani-

  a combining form meaning “grain,” used in the formation of compound words.

Grani

¹ American  

[grah-nee] / ˈgrɑ ni /

noun

1. (in theVolsunga Saga ) the horse of Sigurd.

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grani- ² American  

1. a combining form meaning “grain,” used in the formation of compound words.

   granivorous.

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grani- British  

combining form

1. indicating grain

   graniform

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Etymology

Origin of grani-

< Latin, combining form of grānum; akin to corn ¹

Example Sentences

That same year, he launched Grani, a weekly opposition newspaper that published articles by muckraking journalists, among them Georgiy Gongadze, a harsh critic of Leonid Kuchma, Ukraine’s second post-Soviet leader, who was seen as corrupt.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 16, 2019

With influence reaching into Pizzeria Mozza, Pizzana, Sotto and Cosa Buona among other places, Franco Pepe, of Caiazzo’s Pepe in Grani, has become almost the patron saint of highbrow pizza in Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2017

Friends say that Solzhenitsyn has no idea how the play reached Grani, which is published by a fiercely anti-Soviet organization of Russian emigres in Frankfurt.

From Time Magazine Archive

Following the Grani incident, the Hamburg weekly Die Zeit published extracts in November of an epic poem, Prussian Nights, attributing it to Solzhenitsyn and promising more in later issues.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Grani, knowing that the one who rode him had fear of the fire, reared up and would not go through it.

From The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths by Pogany, Willy