Where does “grill” come from?
Grill comes from French gril, Old English grillan, and Proto-Germanic graljaną, ultimately deriving from Proto-Indo-European gʰer-, with a parallel development through Latin cratis from Proto-Indo-European kert-.
grill (English): A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material...
Definitions
- A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material...
Ancestry of “grill”, step by step
grill traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via English griller
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | griller | One who, or that which, grills; Food suitable for... |
| 2 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 3 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 4 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 5 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 10 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via French gril
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | gril | grill |
| 2 | Middle French | gril | — |
| 3 | Old French | greïl | grill (usually metal mesh suitable for being exposed to fire) |
| 4 | Old French | graïlle | grate, grating |
| 5 | Occitan | gralha | crow |
| 6 | Vulgar Latin | gracla | — |
| 7 | Latin | grācula | (female) jackdaw (Coloeus monedula) |
| 8 | Latin | -a | suffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -ā | Forms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂ | — |