Word Origin Summary

*greutą is attested in Proto-West Germanic. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• grejso

  Esperanto · derived from

• griezel

  Dutch · derived from

• nitty-gritty

  English · inherited from

• grjot

  Norwegian Nynorsk · inherited from

• grót

  Faroese · inherited from

• Grieß

  German · inherited from

• grus

  Danish · derived from

• Gretna Green

  English · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root