Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To grind in a mill.
Grain that is to be ground in a mill. · A group of bees. · Supply; provision. · A given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.
From Middle English grist, gryst, from Old English grist, gyrst (“the action of grinding, corn for grinding, gnashing”), of obscure origin: possibly from a pre-Germanic substrate language, or from a derivative of Proto-Germanic *gredaną (“to crunch”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to rub, grind”). Cognate with Old Saxon gristgrimmo (“gnashing of the teeth”), German Griesgram (“a grumbler, a grouch, peevishness, misery”), Old English gristel (“gristle”).
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