great
Old English
adj
Definitions
- greatgreat, massive
- tall
- thick; stout
- coarse
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *grautaz (coarse, big, coarse grained, large, big in size, crude, unrefined, thick, great) derived from Proto-Indo-European *ghrewə- (put down, fell, fall in).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ghrewə-
Gloss
put down, fell, fall in
Concept
Semantic Field
Agriculture and vegetation
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- grandem Latin
- grandem, grandis Latin
- grossus Latin
- ingrossō Latin
- groß German
- *ghrewə- Proto-Indo-European
- *gʰrewd- Proto-Indo-European
- *grautaz Proto-Germanic
- grot Old English
- grēat Old English
- meregrot Old English
- groz Old High German
- grozi Old High German
- grōz Old High German
- grōz Middle High German
- grouss Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- *graut gmw-pro
- grot Old Dutch
- grōt Old Dutch
- grôt Middle Low German
- grot Old Saxon
- grōt Old Saxon
- gruuss Alemannic German
- grāt Old Frisian
- gross Pennsylvania German
- jruß Central Franconian