grip

grip · verb, noun¹

1. Old English · inherited fromgripa“handful”
2. Old English · inherited fromgripe“grasp, hold”
3. Middle English · inherited fromgrippe
4. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*gripjaną
5. Old English · inherited fromgrippan
6. Middle English · inherited fromgrippen
7. English todaygrip

Verb from Middle English grippen, from Old English grippan, from a Proto-Germanic *gripjaną (compare Old High German gripfen); compare the related Old English grīpan, whence English gripe. See also grope, and the related Proto-Germanic *grīpaną. Noun from Middle English grippe, gripe, an amalgam of Old English gripe (“grasp, hold”) (cognate with German Griff) and Old English gripa (“handful”) (cognate with Swedish grepp).

grip · noun, verb²

1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*grōpiz“a furrow, groove”
2. Old English · inherited fromgrēp“a furrow, burrow”
3. Middle English · inherited fromgrip
4. English todaygrip

From Middle English grip, grippe, gryppe (“a ditch, drain”), from Old English grēp (“a furrow, burrow”) and grēpe (“a furrow, ditch, drain”), from Proto-Germanic *grōpiz (“a furrow, groove”). Cognate with Middle Dutch grippe, gruppe (“ditch, drain”), greppe, German Low German Gruppe (“ditch, drain”). Related also to Old English grōp (“a ditch, drain”). More at groop.

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