Where does “grubbian” come from?

grubbian (Old English) comes from Proto-Germanic grubb-, from Proto-Germanic grub- — to dig.

Ancestry of “grubbian”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicgrubb-
2Proto-Germanicgrub-to dig

Words derived from “grubbian

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