Where does “graban” come from?

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

graban (Proto-West Germanic): to dig; to engrave

Definitions

  1. to dig; to engrave

Ancestry of “graban”, step by step

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

Words derived from “graban”

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