gru

From grue (“to dread”), from Low German grue, from Middle Low German gruwen, from Proto-Germanic *grūwijaną, perhaps ultimately an imitative derivative of Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰers- (“to bristle”),^[1] or instead from *gʰer- (“to rub, stroke, grind”).^[2]

• IPA^(key): /ɡruː/,

gru c (singular definite gruen, not used in plural form)

1. horror

• rædsel

• grusom (“cruel”)

gru

1. imperative of grue

Inherited from Old French gru ?, from Frankish *grūt. Cognate with English grout, groats.

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁy/

gru m (uncountable)

1. (Louisiana) grits

   Défunte mémère faisait du gru avec le maïs que tu moulais, et alle faisait du bon gru avec ça.

   My late grandmother used to make grits with the corn you would grind up, and she made good grits with that.

• gruau

• Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities, 2009, →ISBN, →ISBN

From Latin gruem f or m (“crane”), from Proto-Indo-European *gr̥h₂ú-, from *gerh₂- (“to cry hoarsely”).

Cognate with French grue f, Spanish grua f, Portuguese grou m, Romanian grui m.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡru/^*
• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: grù

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gru f (invariable)

1. crane (bird)
2. crane (machinery)

• IPA^(key): /ɡrʉː/

gru f (definite singular grua, uncountable)

1. dread, horror

• “gru” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ɡry/

gru f

1. crane