| 1 | Old French | groumet | wine broker, valet in charge of wines, servant |
| 2 | Old French | grommes | manservant; wine-taster, manservant |
| 3 | Middle English | grom | Alternative form of grome; boy, valet, servant |
| 4 | Old English | grom | — |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | gramaz | furious; hostile |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | gʰrem- | to be angry; to sound, bellow, growl, roar, be... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | gʰer- | to rub; to stroke; to grind |