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Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *grautiz, *grautaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrewd-. Related to grjót (“coarse stones”).[1][2]
Noun
grautr m (genitive grautar)
- porridge
Descendants
References
- ^ Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “greutan”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 189