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Where does “grilled” come from?

Grilled comes from English grill, from French gril, from French grille, from Latin -are, from French grille, from Latin -are, from Proto-Indo-European kert-.

grilled (English): simple past tense and past participle of grill;...

Definitions

  1. simple past tense and past participle of grill;...

Ancestry of “grilled”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishgrilleAlternative form of grill
2Frenchgrillegate; grate; grid
3EnglishgrillA grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material...
4EnglishgrillerOne who, or that which, grills; Food suitable for...
5English-erA person or thing that does an action indicated...
6Middle English-eragentive suffix; agent noun suffix
7Old French-erAlternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;...
8Latin-āre—
9Proto-Italic-āōForms primarily denominative verbs
10Proto-Indo-European-eh₂yétiCreates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive...
11Proto-Indo-European-yétiCreates intransitive, often deponent,...
12Proto-Indo-Europeanyé-—
13Chichewaiyehe, she

Words derived from “grilled”

  • ungrilled
  • nongrilled
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