Etymology

groin

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Today it means: The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region. Full definition →

English loininflu. ← Middle English grinde ← Old English grynde
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groin · noun, verb1

  1. Proto-Indo-European*gʰrem-
  2. Proto-Germanic*grunduz
  3. Proto-Germanic*grundiją
  4. Proto-West Germanic*grundī
  5. Old Englishgrynde
  6. Middle Englishgrinde
  7. Englishgrine
  8. Englishloininflu.
  9. English todaygroin

From earlier grine, from Middle English grinde, grynde, from Old English grynde (“abyss”) (perhaps also "depression, hollow"), probably related to Proto-Germanic *grunduz; see ground. Later altered under the influence of loin.

groin · verb2

  1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*grunnōną
  2. Old English · inherited fromgrunnian
  3. Latin · derived fromgrunniō
  4. Old French · derived fromgroignier
  5. Middle English · inherited fromgroynen
  6. English todaygroin

From Middle English groynen, from a mixture of Old French groignier, grougnier (from Latin grunniō) and Old English grunnian (from Proto-Germanic *grunnōną).

Words from the same roots

Proto-Germanic*grunduz all →

groundgroundly

Proto-Germanic*grunnōną all →

noodlegrunt

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