Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗verb
To make a channel or groove; to form grooves.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA trench or small ditch. · A trench or drain; particularly, a trench or hollow behind the stalls of cows or horses for receiving their dung and urine. · A pen for cattle; a byre.
From Middle English grope, grupe, groupe, from Old English grōp (“ditch”), from Proto-West Germanic *grōpu, from Proto-Germanic *grōpō (“furrow, ditch, trench”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreb-, *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, furrow, scratch”). Cognate with Scots gruip (“gutter, drain, ditch, trench”), North Frisian groop (“pit”), Dutch groep (“a trench, moat”), Swedish grop (“a pit, ditch, hole, hollow”), Old English grēp, grēpe (“land-drain, ditch; furrow; burrow; privy”). More at grip, groove.
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*gʰrebʰ-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentiongropeenm
- Inherited-form mentiongrōpang · ditch
- Inherited-form mention*grōpugmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*grōpōgem-pro · furrow, ditch, trench
- Derivation mention*gʰreb-ine-pro
- Cognate mentiongruipsco · gutter, drain, ditch, trench
- Cognate mentiongroopfrr · pit
- Cognate mentiongroepnl · a trench, moat
- Cognate mentiongropsv · a pit, ditch, hole, hollow
- Cognate mentiongrēpang
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Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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