Grube
English edit
Proper noun edit
Grube
- A surname.
- A municipality in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Anagrams edit
German edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle High German grūbe, gruobe, from Old High German gruoba, from Proto-Germanic *grōbō (“groove, furrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scrape, bury”). Cognate with English groove. Doublet of Groove.
Noun edit
Grube f (genitive Grube, plural Gruben, diminutive Grübchen n or Grüblein n)
Declension edit
Declension of Grube [feminine]
Related terms edit
- Grubenschacht, Grubenunglück
- Fallgrube, Müllgrube, Sandgrube, Wolfsgrube
- wer andern eine Grube gräbt, fällt selbst hinein
Descendants edit
- → Danish: grube
- → Ukrainian: груба (hruba)
- → Romanian: hrubă
- → Saterland Frisian: Gruube
- → Silesian: gruba
- → Swedish: gruva
Etymology 2 edit
Proper noun edit
Grube n (proper noun, genitive Grubes or (optionally with an article) Grube)
Further reading edit
- “Grube” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
- “Grube” in Duden online
- “Grube” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache