Where does “grab” come from?
grab (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Proto-Slavic grabrъ, from Proto-Indo-European grābʰ-.
grab (Serbo-Croatian): hornbeam
Ancestry of “grab”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Proto-Slavic | grabrъ | hornbeam |
| 2 | Proto-Indo-European | grābʰ- | — |