Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To insert mortar between tiles. · To affix with mortar.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry. · Coarse meal; groats. · Dregs, sediment. · A kind of beer or ale.
From Middle English growte, grut, from Old English grūt (“dregs; coarse meal”), from Proto-West Germanic *grūt, from Proto-Germanic *grūtą (compare Dutch gruit (“dregs”), German Grauß, Norwegian grut (“ground”)), lengthening of Proto-Germanic *grutą, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to grind, rub”). Related to grit.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*gʰer-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentiongrowteenm
- Inherited-form mentiongrūtang · dregs; coarse meal
- Inherited-form mention*grūtgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*grūtągem-pro
- Cognate mentiongruitnl · dregs
- Cognate mentionGraußde
- Cognate mentiongrutno · ground
- Derivation mention*grutągem-pro
- Derivation mention*gʰer-ine-pro · to grind, rub
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