Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. *gʷréh₂usProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• accent grave

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• graaf

  Dutch · derived from

• grave

  Danish · derived from

• greu

  Romanian · inherited from

• Gravigrada

  Translingual · derived from

• grebi

  Sranan Tongo · derived from

• graf

  Dutch · derived from

• grav

  Swedish · derived from

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