Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A small forest. · A small forest with minimal undergrowth. · An orchard of fruit trees. · A place of worship.
To cultivate in groves; to grow naturally so as to form groves. · To cultivate with periodic harvesting that also serves to create order (gaps and lines of trees) to facilitate further harvesting. · To plough or gouge with lines.
From Middle English grove, grave, from Old English grāf, grāfa (“grove; copse”), from Proto-West Germanic *graib, *graibō (“branch, group of branches, thicket”), from Proto-Germanic *graibaz, *graibô (“branch, fork”). Related to Old English grǣf, grǣfe (“brushwood; thicket; copse”), Old English grǣfa (“thicket”), dialectal Norwegian greive (“ram with splayed horns”), dialectal Norwegian greivlar (“ramifications of an antler”), dialectal Norwegian grivla (“to branch, branch out”), Old Norse grein (“twig, branch, limb”). More at greave.
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- Inherited-form mentiongroveenm
- Inherited-form mentiongrāfang
- Inherited-form mention*graibgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*graibazgem-pro
- Cognate mentiongrǣfang
- Cognate mentiongrǣfaang · thicket
- Cognate mentiongreiveno · ram with splayed horns
- Cognate mentiongreivlarno · ramifications of an antler
- Cognate mentiongrivlano · to branch, branch out
- Cognate mentiongreinnon · twig, branch, limb
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