Where does “grobian” come from?

grobian (Norwegian Nynorsk) comes from German Grobian, from Latin grobianus, from German grob, from Old High German grob — coarse.

grobian (Norwegian Nynorsk): a coarse, uncouth, uncivilized fellow, perhaps...

Definitions

  1. a coarse, uncouth, uncivilized fellow, perhaps...

Ancestry of “grobian”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanGrobianbrute
2Latingrobianus—
3Germangrobcoarse, rough; uncouth, rude, crude
4Old High Germangrobcoarse
Every word from Old High German grob →Every word from German grob →Every word from Latin grobianus →