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Where does “grof” come from?

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

Ancestry of “grof”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanic*grob—
2Proto-Germanicgrubazcoarse, rough
3Proto-Indo-Europeangʰrewbʰ-—

Words derived from “grof”

  • gruff
  • gruffly
  • gruffness
  • gruffish
  • grofgrein
  • grof
  • grof
  • grofgrein
  • grofu
Every word from Proto-Indo-European gʰrewbʰ- →