Where does “grof” come from?

grof (Middle Dutch) comes from Old Dutch grof, from Proto-West Germanic *grob, from Proto-Germanic grubaz, from Proto-Indo-European gʰrewbʰ-.

grof (Middle Dutch): thick; large, great; course, rough

Definitions

  1. thick; large, great; course, rough

Ancestry of “grof”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Dutchgrof
2Proto-West Germanic*grob
3Proto-Germanicgrubazcoarse, rough
4Proto-Indo-Europeangʰrewbʰ-

Words derived from “grof

Every word from Proto-Indo-European gʰrewbʰ-
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