gru
Danish edit
Etymology edit
From grue (“to dread”), from Low German grue, from Middle Low German gruwen, from Proto-Germanic *grūwijaną, perhaps ultimately an imitative derivative of Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰers- (“to bristle”),[1] or instead from *gʰer- (“to rub, stroke, grind”).[2]
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gru c (singular definite gruen, not used in plural form)
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Verb edit
gru
- imperative of grue
References edit
- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “gruwen”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 460, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 460
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French gru, from Frankish *grūt. Cognate with English grout, groats.
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gru m (uncountable)
- (Louisiana) grits
- Défunte mémère faisait du gru avec le maïs que tu moulais, et alle faisait du bon gru avec ça.
- My late grandmother used to make grits with the corn you would grind up, and she made good grits with that.
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Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin gruem (“crane”), from Proto-Indo-European *gr̥h₂ú-, from *gerh₂- (“to cry hoarsely”).
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gru f (invariable)
- crane (bird)
- crane (machinery)
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
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gru f (definite singular grua, uncountable)
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- “gru” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Piedmontese edit
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gru f