Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing. · A light abrasion; a slight scratch. · The act of animals feeding from pasture.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for. · To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture) · To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing. · To eat small amounts of food periodically throughout the day, rather than at fixed mealtimes, often not in response to hunger.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *grasą Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *grasōną Proto-West Germanic *grasōn Old English grasian Middle English grasen English graze Inherited from Middle English grasen (“to feed with grass”), from Old English grasian, from Proto-West Germanic *grasōn, from Proto-Germanic *grasōną, from *grasą (“grass”) + *-ōną (verbal suffix). Doublet of grass.
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- Doublet mentiongrassen
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