grimace

The story

1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*grīmô“mask, helmet”
2. Frankish · derived from*grīma
3. Old French · derived fromgrimace
4. Middle French · derived fromgrimace
5. French · borrowed fromgrimace
6. English todaygrimace

From French grimace, from Middle French grimace, from Old French grimace, grimuche, from grime (“mask”) (with the pejorative suffix -ace, from Latin -āceus), from Frankish *grīma, *grīmō (“mask”), from Proto-Germanic *grīmô (“mask, helmet”). Cognate with Old English grīma (“mask, visor, helmet, spectre, apparition”). More at grime.

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