gruj

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• grug
• grum, gruh (dialectal)
• grun (dialectal, Krk)
• grunj (dialectal, Cres)

Etymology

An early borrowing from Dalmatian graun in some forms and Venetan grongo ~ Italian grongo in others. Some explain the form in -j as from a Vulgar Latin *grongius or similar. Compare Slovene grúj.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡrûj/

Noun

grȕj m animacy unspecified (Cyrillic spelling гру̏ј) (regional)

1. conger eel (Conger conger)

   Synonym: ùgor

   • 1889, Stjepan Mitrov Ljubiša, Pripovijesti crnogorske i primorske, 2nd edition, Dubrovnik, page 266:

     I ja bogme, odvrati joj Druško, po vas bijeli dan točim rakiju, a obnoć lovim ribu, popunjom skakve mrazice, prostricom palomniće, skuševe i širune, ričkom sape, udicom zubace, ukljate, vukove i kance, vršom murinje, omecem gruje i krnje, žegom ljubljaje, ostima sipe i obotnice!

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   • 1933, Tomislav M. Macan, “Ribarsko oruđe (Blato na Mljetu)”, in Zbornik za narodni život i običaje južnih slavena, number 29, Zagreb, page 211:

     Bacaju se uz kraj na dubinu 10 do 15 pasa, a u njih se hitaju crnjeji, murine i gruji od marča pa sve do Božić.

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Declension

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Descendants

• → Albanian: gru

References

• RJA, vol. 3, page 480a: “grȕj”, page 479a: “grug”, “gruh²”, page 480b: “grum²”
• Parčić (1887), page 342a: “grongo” → “gruj, grun”
• Stulić (1810), vol. 1, page 717b: “grongo” → “gruj”
• Stulić (1806), vol. 1, page 198b: “grūj”
• Voltiggi (1803), page 78: “gruj”
• Stulić (1801), page 298b: “conger” → “gruj”
• Della Bella (1728), page 149b: “bronco” → “grùj”, page 359b: “grongo” → “grùj”
• Belostenec (1740), page 119a: “grum”, “gruy”
• Etymological:
  • Skok ERHISJ, vol. 1, page 627b: “grȗg”
  • Šturm (1927), page 67: “grȗj”