Word Origin Summary

Grand is attested in Middle French. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *gʰer-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from
2. grandisLatininherited from
3. grantFrenchinherited from
4. *grandisProto-Italicinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• Grand Teton

  English · borrowed from

• grangou

  Plateau Haitian Creole · derived from

• gran

  Mauritian Creole · derived from

• Grand Marais

  English · derived from

• granda

  Esperanto · borrowed from

• grand danois

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• grand

  French · inherited from

• grand danois

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

What You Can Explore

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