Where does “graba” come from?
graba (Serbo-Croatian) comes from German graben, from Middle High German graben, from Old High German graban, from Proto-West Germanic graban, from Proto-Germanic grabaną, from Proto-Indo-European gʰrābʰ- — to dig, scratch, scrape.
graba (Serbo-Croatian): ditch
Ancestry of “graba”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | German | graben | to dig; to burrow |
| 2 | Middle High German | graben | — |
| 3 | Old High German | graban | — |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | graban | to dig; to engrave |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | grabaną | to dig; to engrave, scratch |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | gʰrābʰ- | to dig, scratch, scrape |