Etymology

Grewe

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Today it means: A surname from Old French. Full definition →

Old French grue
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromgrue“crane”
  2. English todayGrewe

English and Irish surname from Old French grue (“crane”), a nickname for a tall and scrawny person.

Words from the same roots

Old Frenchgrue all →

grouse

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.