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Gru attack’); corresponding to grêtan,  to greet,  groeten,  grôtian, ‘to address,’  grœta. The latter is probably the primary meaning of the cognates, which are merely West . Origin obscure.   ,, ‘groats, grit, brain,’ from  grütze, ‘water-gruel’; a variant of the   griuȥe (griutze?);  gruzzi (whence  gruzzo, ‘pile of collected things’);   grŷt and grytt,  grit and groat (from  *grota?),  grautr,  grut, gort, ‘groats.’ From  the Romance cognates,  gruau, ‘groats,’ are derived. Besides ,  grûȥ, ‘grain,’ is also allied to ; hence ‘grain’ may be the  meaning of the  root grū̆t, with which the  cognates  grúdas, ‘grain, kernel,’ and  gruda, ‘clod,’ are also connected.  ,, from the  gucken, gücken, ‘to peep’; the word is wanting in  and in  generally. Origin obscure.  ,, ‘florin,’ from the  gulden, guldîn, , ‘the golden coin,’ from  guldîn, ‘golden.’ The absence of mutation from u to ü is in accordance with the practice of earlier.   ,, ‘payment, interest,’ from gülte, , ‘debt, payment, interest, rent.’ Akin to.   ,, ‘ground-ivy,’ from the  gunderëbe; the deviation in meaning in  gundrëba, ‘maple,’ is remarkable. Allied to gund (gunt), ‘pus, poison,’  gund,  gunds, ‘pus’?. In that case the word would signify ‘poison-vine’ (see ), Ground-ivy was used as a medicinal herb.   ,, ‘bugle(-plant),’ simply , transformed from consolida, “a name applied by the earlier herb-gatherers to all wound-healing plants.”   ,, ‘favour, partiality, permission,’ from and  gunst, , and , ‘benevolence, permission,’ for *geunst, allied to  gi-unnan (see ); in  unst,  ( also gund;   ǫfund, ‘disfavour’),  ansts, ‘fav - our, mercy,’  êst,  anst, ‘favour, mercy.’   ,, ‘gullet, throat,’ from gurgel,  gurgula, ; a remarkably early loan-word  from  gurgulio, which supplanted a genuine  word  allied to it —  quërchala, quërcha, ‘gullet,’ allied to  kverk, ‘gullet.’ <section end="Gurgel" /> <section begin="Gurke" /> ,, ‘cucumber,’ first occurs in early ; corresponding to agurkje,  gherkin,  agurke; borrowed from  ogurek,  okurka; the latter has been derived from late  ἀγγούριον, ‘water-melon,’ and further from  ankhara. In (also in the Wetter and  )  is used instead of. <section end="Gurke" /> <section begin="gürren" /> ,, ‘to coo,’ from gurren, ‘to bray’; allied to  gërren. See. <section end="gürren" /> <section begin="Gurt" /> ,, ‘girth, girdle,’ from the  gurt (in compounds über-, umbe-, under-gurt); allied to  from the   gürten (gurten),  gurten (gurtjan);   gurdian,  gorden,  gyrdan,  to gird; in  gairdan,   ‘to gird.’ With the root gerd contained in these words are connected  garðr, ‘fence round the farm,’  gradŭ, ‘wall, town’ (see , and respecting the evolution of meaning see ). — <section end="Gurt" /> <section begin="Gürtel" /> ,, ‘girdle,’ from the  gürtel,  and ,  gurtil, , gurtila,. girdle, from gyrdel. <section end="Gürtel" /> <section begin="Guß" /> ,, ‘shower, torrent, spout, cast,’ from and  guȥ(ȥȥ), ‘cast, shower.’ Allied to. <section end="Guß" /> ,, ‘good, virtuous, skilful,’ from the  and  guot; a common  term unknown to the non- languages;   gôds,  gôðr,  gôd,  good,  goed. Its connection with ἀγαθός is phonetically uncertain. Only in are found reliable cognates which may elucidate the primary meaning of  (yet   godŭ, ‘suitable time’?). The cognates of, with which together, to gather,  gadiliggs, ‘relative,’ also seem to be connected, prove that the  meaning of  is ‘belonging to one another, suitable.’ For the comparison of the  see ,.