- ghren-
- ghren-English meaning: to rub, stroke roughlyDeutsche Übersetzung: ‘scharf worũber streifen, zerreiben”Note: extension from gher-2 ds., mostly with dental extension (originally present?)Material: Gk. χραίνω “ touch slightly; smear, paint; besmear, anoint; stain; defile; esp. of moral pollution “; in addition with formants -tu- (-to-), O.Ice. grunnr m. (nn from nÞ) “bottom, ground” (basic meaning ‘sand, sandy soil” as “* the pulverized ground “), grunn n. “ shallow place in the water “, grund f. (m. gramm. variation) “field, earth”, Goth. grundu-waddjus “ foundation wall “, O.E. O.S. grund, O.H.G. grunt “ground, bottom”. ghren-d-: Gk. χόνδρος m. “ a grain or lump of salt; in pl. groats of wheat or spelt: gruel made therefrom “ (diss. from *χρόνδ-ρος); Alb. (-d- or -dh-) grundë, krundë “ bran “ (*ghr̥n-d[h]ü); maybe Alb.Gheg grind “quarrel, fight, crush”, Alb.Tosk grinj “grind” Lat. frendō, -ere “ crunch, gnash the teeth “; common Illyr. gh- > d- phonetic mutation, from there Lat. d- > f- shift. O.Ice. grotti m. “mill”. ghren-dh-: O.E. grindan “ grind, crunch “, Eng. to grind “ds., sharpen “ (O.E. grindan with tōÞum), Eng. to grind one’s teeth “gnash the teeth”; Ger. (N.Ger.) Grand ‘sand”, N.Ger. grand f. “ coarse sand, meal, flour, bran “, O.H.G. in grente “ in earth full of clay “, O.Ice. grandi m. ‘sandbank, gravel “; N.Ger. grind f. “ pebble sand; scurf “, nld. grind, grint “ coarse meal, flour, sand”, O.H.G. M.H.G. grint “ crust, scab, eschar, scurf”, Goth. grinda-fraÞjis “ pusillanimous “ (from an adj. *grinds “*pulverized “); Lith. gréndu, grę́sti and gréndžiu, grę́sti “ rub hard, scour, clean” (zero grade present), Iter. gránd-aunder -yti (compare grémžti above under ghrem-1); Russ. grjada.References: WP. I 656 f., WH. I 545 f., Trautmann 96 f.
Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary. 2015.