engross

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*ghrewə-“to fell, put down, fall in”
2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*grautaz“large, great, thick, coarse grained, unrefined”
3. Proto-West Germanic · derived from*graut
4. Old High German · derived fromgrōz“big, thick, coarse”
5. Medieval Latin · derived fromingrossō“thicken, write something large and in bold lettering”
6. Anglo-Norman · derived fromengrosser“to gather in large quantities, draft something in final form”
7. Middle English · inherited fromengrossen
8. English todayengross

From Middle English engrossen, from Anglo-Norman engrosser (“to gather in large quantities, draft something in final form”); partly from the phrase en gros (“in bulk, in quantity, at wholesale”), from en- + gros; and partly from Medieval Latin ingrossō (“thicken, write something large and in bold lettering”, v.), from in- + grossus (“great, big, thick”), from Old High German grōz (“big, thick, coarse”), from Proto-West Germanic *graut, from Proto-Germanic *grautaz (“large, great, thick, coarse grained, unrefined”), from Proto-Indo-European *ghrewə- (“to fell, put down, fall in”). More at in-, gross. By surface analysis, en- + gross.

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