Etymology

grippe

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Today it means: Influenza, the flu. Full definition →

First used 18th c.French grippe ← Frankish *grīpan ← Proto-Germanic *grīpaną
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*gʰreyb-“to grab, to grasp”
  2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*grīpaną
  3. Frankish · derived from*grīpan
  4. French · borrowed fromgrippe
  5. English todaygrippe

Borrowed from French grippe, from gripper (“to seize, snatch”), from Frankish *grīpan, from Proto-Germanic *grīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreyb- (“to grab, to grasp”). Borrowed from French into many languages of the world. More at gripe.

Words from the same roots

Proto-Germanic*grīpaną all →

gripe

Proto-Indo-European*gʰreyb- all →

gripe

First known use, by meaning

  • from 18th c. Influenza, the flu.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.