Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch. · To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something). · To restrain someone; to arrest. · To grip the attention of; to enthrall or interest.
A sudden snatch at something. · An acquisition by violent or unjust means. · A mechanical device that grabs or clutches. · A device for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven.
From Middle Dutch grabben or Middle Low German grabben (“to grasp, grab, seize, snatch”), from Old Saxon gravan, from Proto-West Germanic *grabbōn, a secondary form of Proto-Germanic *grabōną (“to gather, rake”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to gather, rake, grab, seize”). Related to archaic German grappen (“to grab”), Danish grabbe (“to grab”), Swedish grabba (“to grab”), Old Norse grápa (“to seize, appropriate”), Middle English grappen (“to feel, grope, grasp, clutch”), Old English ġegræppian (“to seize”). Related also to Sanskrit गृह्णाति (gṛhṇā́ti), गृभ्णाति (gṛbhṇā́ti, “he seizes”), Avestan 𐬔𐬭𐬀𐬠 (grab, “to seize”)), Macedonian грабне (grabne, “to snatch”), Bulgarian грабя (grabja, “to rob, to grab”).
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- Root classification mention*gʰrebʰ-ine-pro
- Borrowed-form mentiongrabbendum
- Borrowed-form mentiongrabbengml · to grasp, grab, seize, snatch
- Derivation mentiongravanosx
- Derivation mention*grabbōngmw-pro
- Derivation mention*grabōnągem-pro · to gather, rake
- Derivation mention*gʰrebʰ-ine-pro · to gather, rake, grab, seize
- Cognate mentiongrappende · to grab
- Cognate mentiongrabbeda · to grab
- Cognate mentiongrabbasv · to grab
- Cognate mentiongrápanon · to seize, appropriate
- Cognate mentiongrappenenm · to feel, grope, grasp, clutch
- Cognate mentionġegræppianang · to seize
- Cognate mentionगृह्णातिsa
- Cognate mention𐬔𐬭𐬀𐬠ae
- Cognate mentionграбнеmk
- Cognate mentionграбяbg
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