granzie, graunzie, graunagie, gransénouna barn19-. Compare grennumetymology: all these forms from Middle English grange ‘a repository for grain; a barn’; Romany attests gran; forms graunzie, graunagie attested as Scottish Gypsy; form granzie attested by Galloway and Perthshire and Argyleshire Tinkler-Gypsies and BS in TDITA; the form gransé is attested as being from Kirk Yetholm; also collected by EMcC/PS; forms graunzie, graunagie also collected by Simson (1865) and attested by two of his informantsnote:
Smart & Crofton (1875) collected the form Gráinsi, Gránza n., ‘a barn’ from English Gypsies.