Where does “gravan” come from?

gravan (Old Saxon) comes from Proto-West Germanic graban, from Proto-Germanic grabaną, from Proto-Indo-European gʰrābʰ- — to dig, scratch, scrape.

gravan (Old Saxon): to dig

Definitions

  1. to dig

Ancestry of “gravan”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanicgrabanto dig; to engrave
2Proto-Germanicgrabanąto dig; to engrave, scratch
3Proto-Indo-Europeangʰrābʰ-to dig, scratch, scrape

Words derived from “gravan”

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