Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAn excavation in the earth as a place of burial. · Any place of interment. · Any place containing one or more corpses. · Death, destruction.
From Middle English grave, grafe, from Old English græf, grafu (“cave, grave, trench”), from Proto-West Germanic *grab, from Proto-Germanic *grabą, *grabō (“grave, trench, ditch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with West Frisian grêf (“grave”), Dutch graf (“grave”), Low German Graf (“a grave”), Graff, German Grab (“grave”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian grav (“grave”), Icelandic gröf (“grave”). Related to groove.
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- Root classification mention*gʰrebʰ-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentiongraveenm
- Inherited-form mentiongræfang
- Inherited-form mention*grabgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*grabągem-pro
- Derivation mention*gʰrebʰ-ine-pro · to dig, scratch, scrape
- Cognate mentiongrêffy · grave
- Cognate mentiongrafnl · grave
- Cognate mentionGrafnds · a grave
- Cognate mentionGrabde · grave
- Cognate mentiongravno · grave
- Cognate mentiongröfis · grave
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