Where does “Grauf” come from?

Grauf (Plautdietsch) comes from Middle Low German grav, from Old Saxon graf, from Proto-Germanic grabą, from Proto-Indo-European gʰrābʰ- — to dig, scratch, scrape.

Grauf (Plautdietsch): grave place for human burial

Definitions

  1. grave place for human burial

Ancestry of “Grauf”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Low Germangrav—
2Old Saxongraf—
3Proto-Germanicgrabągrave
4Proto-Indo-Europeangʰrābʰ-to dig, scratch, scrape

Words derived from “Grauf”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European gʰrābʰ- →Every word from Proto-Germanic grabą →Every word from Old Saxon graf →