gripe

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*gʰreyb-“to grab, grasp”
2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*grīpaną
3. Old English · inherited fromgrīpan
4. Middle English · inherited fromgripen
5. English todaygripe

From Middle English gripen, from Old English grīpan, from Proto-Germanic *grīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreyb- (“to grab, grasp”). Cognate with West Frisian gripe, Low German griepen, Dutch grijpen, German greifen, Danish gribe, Norwegian Bokmål gripe, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish gripa, Icelandic grípa. See also grip, grope.

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