Where does “graveren” come from?

graveren (Middle Dutch) comes from Old French graver, from Frankish graban, from Proto-Germanic grabaną, from Proto-Indo-European gʰrābʰ- — to dig, scratch, scrape.

Ancestry of “graveren”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchgraver—
2Frankishgrabanto dig, engrave; to dig; to engrave
3Proto-Germanicgrabanąto dig; to engrave, scratch
4Proto-Indo-Europeangʰrābʰ-to dig, scratch, scrape

Words derived from “graveren”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European gʰrābʰ- →Every word from Proto-Germanic grabaną →Every word from Frankish graban →