Etymology

graze

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Today it means: The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing. Full definition →

Middle English grasen ← Old English grasian ← Proto-West Germanic *grasōn
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*gʰreh₁-
  2. Proto-Germanic*grasą
  3. Proto-Germanic*grasōną
  4. Proto-West Germanic*grasōn
  5. Old Englishgrasian
  6. Middle Englishgrasen
  7. English todaygraze

Inherited from Middle English grasen (“to feed with grass”), from Old English grasian, from Proto-West Germanic *grasōn, from Proto-Germanic *grasōną, from *grasą (“grass”) + *-ōną (verbal suffix). Doublet of grass.

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