Etymology

grobian

G2R1O1B3I1A1N1

Today it means: A coarse, uncouth, uncivilized and possibly violent fellow. Full definition →

German Grobian ← Middle High German grob ← Old High German grob
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*krewp-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*krewp-o-s
  3. Proto-Germanic*hreubazder.?
  4. Old High Germangrob
  5. Middle High Germangrob
  6. Germangrob
  7. GermanGrobianus
  8. GermanGrobian
  9. English todaygrobian

Borrowed from German Grobian (“brute”).

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