Where does “grupus” come from?

grupus (Renaissance Latin) comes from Proto-Germanic kruppaz, from Proto-Indo-European grewb-, from Proto-Indo-European ger- — to turn, bend, twist, wind; to tie, bind...

Ancestry of “grupus”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Proto-Germanic	kruppaz	a body; mass; a compressed, round mass; lump;...
2	Proto-Indo-European	grewb-	to warp, bend, crawl; to bend, crouch, crawl; to...
3	Proto-Indo-European	ger-	to turn, bend, twist, wind; to tie, bind...

Words derived from “grupus”

group
grouping
subgroup
intergroup
workgroup
outgroup
groupthink
newsgroup
groupware
intragroup
groupie
haplogroup
filegroup
playgroup
groupwork
serogroup
headgroup
supergroup
multigroup
Eurogroup
groupness
semigroup
ungroup
battlegroup

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