Where does “Grauss” come from?

Grauss (Plautdietsch) comes from Middle Low German gras, from Old Saxon gras, from Proto-West Germanic gras, from Proto-Germanic grasą, from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰreh₁- — to become green, grow; to grow; to green, to grow.

Grauss (Plautdietsch): grass

Definitions

  1. grass

Ancestry of “Grauss”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Low Germangras—
2Old Saxongrasgrass
3Proto-West Germanicgrasgrass
4Proto-Germanicgrasągrass
5Proto-Indo-Europeanǵʰreh₁-to become green, grow; to grow; to green, to grow

Words derived from “Grauss”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰreh₁- →Every word from Proto-Germanic grasą →Every word from Proto-West Germanic gras →
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