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Gri  , ‘influenza,’  only, from the   grippe.  ,, ‘coarse, uncouth, rude,’ from grop(b), gerop,  gerob, grob, ‘thick, awkward, indelicate’;   and  grof, ‘coarse.’ The explanation of the word is not certain, since it is wanting in the other  languages; it is undecided whether the term is compounded with ge-,  ga-; if  *ga-hruba- were the  form, the connection with  hreóf,  riob, ‘scabiosus,’ would still remain doubtful. ,, ‘to bear ill-will or a grudge; roll (of thunder,)’ allied to grüllen, ‘to scorn, ridicule’;   gryllan, ‘to gnash,’  grillen, ‘to vex’?.  , and, ‘miller's thumb,’ from the   groppe; akin to  carabus?.   ', ',, simply , from the  grosse, ‘twelve dozen, gross.’   ,, ‘groschen (1$1⁄5$d.),’ from the  gros, grosse, ; like  gros, ‘groschen,’ from  grossus; related to the common  ,  grosso, ‘thick’ (  gros), just as  grote (whence  groat), ‘groschen,’ to.   ,, ‘great, large, huge, grand,’ from the  and  grôȥ; a specifically West   (in  mikils,  michel,  μεγάλη);   grôt,  groot,  great,  greát. The assumed *grauta- (pre- ghraudo-) has no correspondences in the non- languages. On account of the au especially,  grandis cannot be  allied; it is rather connected with  rûdus, raudus,, ‘lump of bronze, stones broken into small pieces,’ and rudis, ‘raw’ (Aryan root ghrū̆d).   , see.   , see.   ,, ‘pit, cavity, quarry, mine, ditch,’ from the  gruobe,  gruoba, ;   grôba, , ‘pit, cavern’ ( groove); allied to. Whether ,, ‘cave, hollow, sepulchre,’ is connected with it is questionable; gruft,  gruft, might well correspond in form to , as the vowels of  prove. But the absence of the word in the other dialects probably shows that it was borrowed from the  cognates,  grotta,  grotte,  ‘grotto’ (whence also, in  only), which are based on early  grupta ( κρύπτη). — <section end="Grube" /> <section begin="grübeln" /> ,, ‘to grub, rack one's brains, brood,’ from grübelen,  grubilôn, ‘to excavate by boring, investigate closely’; it is certainly connected with the root grab, ‘to dig’ (  to grub). <section end="grübeln" /> <section begin="Grummet" /> ,, ‘aftermath,’ from gruënmât, gruonmât, , ‘grass mown when it is green, i.e. unripe, aftermath’; the derivation from the root grô (see ), ‘to grow,’ is less probable (,  ‘grass mown during its growth’). . <section end="Grummet" /> <section begin="grün" /> ,, ‘green, fresh, vigorous, unripe,’ from grüene,  gruoni, ‘green, fresh’; corresponding to  grôni,  groen,  grêne,  green,  grœ́nn,  *grô-ni-, ‘green'; allied to a  root grô, ‘to grow, become green.’   grüejen,  gruoan, ‘to grow green’;  grôwan,  to grow,  groeijen, ‘to grow, thrive.’ Akin to  and its Aryan cognates. <section end="grün" /> <section begin="Grund" /> ,, ‘ground, earth, basis, rudiment, reason,’ from the  grunt(d),  grunt, ; corresponding to  grond,  grund,  ground,  grund, ‘meadow land,’ grunnr (from grun-þus), ‘bottom of the sea;’  grundu-waddjus, ‘foundation wall.’  grundu, from pre- ghrentu- (with t on account of  grunnr), cannot have originated in the  root grind (pre- ghrendh) mentioned under. No cognates are found in the non- languages. <section end="Grund" /> <section begin="Grünspan" /> ,, ‘verdigris,’ from the late  gruënspân, , formed like the ordinary  spângrüen, , ‘verdigris,’ from  viride Hispanum. <section end="Grünspan" /> ,, ‘to grunt,’ from the  and  grunzen ( *grunnazzen); corresponding to  to grunt ( grunten); intensive form of  grinnen,  grunnian, ‘to gnash.’ The stem upon which it is based is probably imitative, as the similarly sounding  grunnire,  γρύζειν, lead us to suppose. ,, ‘to inspire terror,’ simply, intensive of. <section begin="Gruß" /> ,, ‘greeting, salute,’ from the  and  gruoȥ, ; corresponding to  groet. ‘To this is allied, from grüeȥen (grüetzen),  gruoȥȥen (gruozzen),  , ‘to address, accost’ (also with hostile intent ‘to <section end="Gruß" />