Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To make a grunt or grunts. · To break wind; to fart.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA short snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak. · The snorting cry of a pig. · Any fish of the perciform family Haemulidae. · A person who does ordinary and boring work.
From Middle English grunten, from Old English grunnettan (“to grunt”), from Proto-West Germanic *grunnattjan, from Proto-Germanic *grunnatjaną (“to grunt”), frequentative of Proto-Germanic *grunnōną (“to grunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrun- (“to shout”). Cognate with German grunzen (“to grunt”), Danish grynte (“to grunt”). The noun senses are all instances of zero derivation from the verb.
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- Inherited-form mentiongruntenenm
- Inherited-form mentiongrunnettanang · to grunt
- Inherited-form mention*grunnattjangmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*grunnatjanągem-pro · to grunt
- Derivation mention*grunnōnągem-pro · to grunt
- Derivation mention*gʰrun-ine-pro · to shout
- Cognate mentiongrunzende · to grunt
- Cognate mentiongrynteda · to grunt
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