grut

From Middle Dutch grutte, gurte, from Old Dutch *grutti, from Proto-West Germanic *gruti, related to *greut (“grit”).

• IPA^(key): /ɣrʏt/

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• Rhymes: -ʏt

grut n (plural grutten, diminutive grutje n)

1. (countable and uncountable) groat, broken-up or ground grain
2. (countable) small stuff, little things
3. (uncountable) children

   Zeg, wilt g' uw klein grut 'ne keer bijhouden? Da staat hier altijd maar te jengelen, te janken en te bleiten rond m'n benen, om zot van te worden!

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   "Say, would you keep your little kid with you? It's always complaining, crying and screaming around my legs, it's to become crazy of!"

• groet, groeët, groeat (Veldeke spelling)
• gruët (Eupen spelling)
• gruut (German-based spelling, alternative spelling form)
• groit, grout, groot, groat, graot

Inherited from Middle Dutch grôot, from Old Dutch grōt, from Proto-West Germanic *graut, from Proto-Germanic *grautaz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɣʁuːt/
• (East Limburgish-Ripuarian) IPA^(key): /ˈɣʁuə̯t/
• (Maastrichtian) IPA^(key): /ˈɣʁut/
• Rhymes: -uːt, -uə̯t, -ut

grut (masculine grute, feminine grute, comparative gruter or gröter, superlative grütste or grötste or grutste) (German-based spelling)

1. big, large
2. great, grand
3. (of living things) tall
4. (of people) adult, full-grown
5. (Selfkant) pregnant

grut

1. alternative form of growte

• grat (Föhr-Amrum)
• gurt (Sylt)

From Old Frisian grāt, from Proto-West Germanic *graut, from Proto-Germanic *grautaz.

grut (comparative gruter, superlative grutst)

1. (Mooring) big, large

Compare Old Norse grjót (“rubble”), Norwegian graut (“porridge”).

IPA^(key): /ɡrʉːt/

grut m (definite singular gruten, uncountable)

1. coffee grounds

“grut” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Compare Old Norse grjót (“rubble”), Norwegian graut (“porridge”).

IPA^(key): /ɡrʉːt/

grut m (definite singular gruten, uncountable)

1. coffee grounds

• Prior to a 2018 spelling decision, this noun was also considered grammatically neuter.

• “grut” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• trug

Probably from a Proto-Germanic *grūtą, *grutą, probably related to *greutą (“grit”). Compare Old Norse grautr; from which Icelandic grautur (“porridge”), Swedish gröt.

• IPA^(key): /ɡruːt/

grūt f

1. malt mash

(feminine):

• Middle English: growte, grout
  • English: grout

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “grut”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Grut”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.
• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

• grud, grit

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Borrowed from Middle English grit.

grut m (uncountable)

1. grit

   Synonyms: graean, gro, grafel

• grutgen (“tartar”)

Borrowed from Middle English grytt.

grut m (plural grution)

1. (usually plural) bran, grits, groats

   Synonyms: rhuchion, rhynion

• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “grut”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “grut”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

From Old Frisian grāt, from Proto-West Germanic *graut, from Proto-Germanic *grautaz.

grut

1. big, large
2. great

• grutsk

• “grut (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

grut

1. alternative form of gurt

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 44