grow

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*gʰreh₁-“to grow, become green”
2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*grōaną“to grow, grow green”
3. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*grōan
4. Old English · inherited fromgrōwan“to grow, increase, flourish, germinate”
5. Middle English · inherited fromgrowen
6. English todaygrow

From Middle English growen, from Old English grōwan (“to grow, increase, flourish, germinate”), from Proto-West Germanic *grōan, from Proto-Germanic *grōaną (“to grow, grow green”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow, become green”). Cognates Cognate with Dutch groeien (“to grow”), German Low German grojen (“to green; thrive; take hold; flourish”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish gro (“to grow”), Faroese grógva (“to grow”), Icelandic gróa (“to grow”); also Latin grāmen (“grass, turf; herb, plant”), herba (“grass, herbage; weeds; plant”), Ukrainian гря́ний (hrjányj, “green”). Related to growth, grass, green.

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