Where does “growen” come from?

growen (Plautdietsch) comes from Middle Low German graven, from Old Saxon gravan, from Proto-West Germanic graban, from Proto-Germanic grabaną, from Proto-Indo-European gʰrābʰ- — to dig, scratch, scrape.

growen (Plautdietsch): to dig

Definitions

  1. to dig

Ancestry of “growen”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Low Germangravento dig
2Old Saxongravanto dig
3Proto-West Germanicgrabanto dig; to engrave
4Proto-Germanicgrabanąto dig; to engrave, scratch
5Proto-Indo-Europeangʰrābʰ-to dig, scratch, scrape

Words derived from “growen”

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