ghrebh-2. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	ghrebh-²
DEFINITION:	To dig, bury, scratch. 1. O-grade form ghrobh-. a. (i)* grave³, engrave, from Old English grafan, to dig, engrave, scratch, carve; (ii) graben, from Old High German graban, to dig; (iii) gravlax, from Swedish grava, to bury; (iv) gravure, from Old French graver, to engrave. (i)–(iv) all from Germanic graban; b. grave¹, from Old English græf,* trench, grave, from Germanic grabam. 2. grub, from Old English grybban, to dig, from Germanic grub(b)jan (with secondary ablaut). 3. groove, from Middle Dutch groeve,* ditch, from Germanic grb. (Pokorny 2. ghrebh-* 455.)


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