Where does “grafa” come from?

grafa (Old Norse) comes from Proto-Germanic grabaną, from Proto-Indo-European gʰrābʰ- — to dig, scratch, scrape.

grafa (Old Norse): to dig; to bury; to engrave

Definitions

  1. to dig; to bury; to engrave

Ancestry of “grafa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicgrabanąto dig; to engrave, scratch
2Proto-Indo-Europeangʰrābʰ-to dig, scratch, scrape

Words derived from “grafa”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European gʰrābʰ- →Every word from Proto-Germanic grabaną →