Where does “grav” come from?

grav (Middle Low German) comes from Old Saxon graf, from Proto-Germanic grabą, from Proto-Indo-European gʰrābʰ- — to dig, scratch, scrape.

Ancestry of “grav”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Saxongraf—
2Proto-Germanicgrabągrave
3Proto-Indo-Europeangʰrābʰ-to dig, scratch, scrape

Words derived from “grav”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European gʰrābʰ- →Every word from Proto-Germanic grabą →Every word from Old Saxon graf →