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gru

See also: GRU and Gru

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gru

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Kistane.

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Albanian

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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gru f (definite gruja) (dialectal, Gheg)

  1. alternative form of grua

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian grȕj / гру̏ј. Doublet of dhrongo.

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gru f (definite gruja)

  1. synonym of ngjalë deti (Conger conger)

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Danish

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Etymology

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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]

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  • IPA(key): /ɡruː/, [ɡ̊ʁuːˀ]

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

  1. horror

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Declension of gru
common
gender 		singular
indefinite definite
nominative gru gruen
genitive grus gruens

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Verb

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gru

  1. imperative of grue

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  1. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “gruwen”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
  2. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 460

French

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Etymology

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

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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.

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

Italian

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Etymology

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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.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɡru/*
  • Rhymes: -u
  • Hyphenation: grù
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gru f (invariable)

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

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gru f (definite singular grua, uncountable)

  1. dread, horror

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Piedmontese

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gru f

  1. crane

Polish

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gru m inan

  1. abbreviation of grudzień or grudnia (“December”)
    Coordinate terms: sty, lut, mar, kwi, maj, cze, lip, sie, wrz, paź, lis

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Etymology

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    Inherited from Proto-Berber. Cognate with Tarifit yru (“to gather”) and Ghadames ăǵruw (“to gather”).

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    Verb

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    gru (perfective gri or gra, imperfective grru, verbal noun tigri, Tifinagh spelling ⴳⵔⵓ, Arabic spelling ڭرو)

    1. to gather, to glean
    2. to be gathered
    3. to harvest (olives, almonds, walnuts, argan nuts)
    4. to nibble, peck (of birds)

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    References

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    • Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 2 F–L (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/2) (in French), Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 934
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