Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventorysimple past of grow · past participle of grow
From Middle English grew, from Old English grēow (first and third person past tense of grōwan), from West Germanic *greu, from Northwest Germanic *grerō, from Proto-Germanic *gegrō (first and third person past tense of *grōaną), reduplication of *grōaną.
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