Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/grōaną
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Proto-Germanic edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to become green, grow”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
*grōaną
Inflection edit
Conjugation of *grōaną (strong class 7e)
Usage notes edit
Originally, this word probably referred only to the growing of plants, not to growth in general. The more usual words for general growing were probably *wahsijaną and *aukaną.