Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Charming, pleasing qualities. · A short prayer of thanks before or after a meal. · In the games of patience or solitaire: a special move that is normally against the rules. · A grace note.
To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify. · To dignify or raise by an act of favour; to honour. · To supply with heavenly grace. · To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.
From Middle English grace, from Old French grace (modern French grâce), from Latin grātia (“kindness, favour, esteem”), from grātus (“pleasing”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to praise, welcome”); compare grateful. The word displaced the native Middle English held, hield (“grace”) (from Old English held, hyld (“grace”)), Middle English este (“grace, favour, pleasure”) (from Old English ēst (“grace, kindness, favour”)), Middle English athmede(n) (“grace”) (from Old English ēadmēdu (“grace”)), Middle English are, ore (“grace, mercy, honour”) (from Old English ār (“honour, grace, kindness, mercy”)).
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*gʷerH-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentiongraceenm
- Derivation mentiongracefro
- Cognate mentiongrâcefr
- Derivation mentiongrātiala
- Derivation mention*gʷerH-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionheldenm
- Cognate mentionheldang
- Cognate mentionesteenm
- Cognate mentionēstang
- Cognate mentionathmedeenm
- Cognate mentionēadmēduang
- Cognate mentionareenm
- Cognate mentionārang
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