English: topographic name for someone living near a pit or
hollow, from Old Norse gryfja ‘pit’, ‘hollow’, or a
habitational name from Griff in Warwickshire, Griffe in Derbyshire, or
Griff Farm in Rievaulx, North Yorkshire, all probably named with this
word.
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