gruel

gruel · noun¹

1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*grūtiz“ground material; grit”
2. Frankish · derived from*grūt
3. Old English · derived fromgrūt“meal; grout”
4. Medieval Latin · derived fromgrutum“flour; meal”
5. Medieval Latin · derived fromgrutellum
6. Old French · derived fromgruel“coarse meal; > French <i class="Latn mention" lang="fr">gruau</i>”
7. Middle English · inherited fromgruel
8. English todaygruel

From Middle English gruel, gruwel, greuel, growel (“meal or flour made from beans, lentils, etc.”), from Old French gruel (“coarse meal; > French gruau”), from Medieval Latin grutellum, diminutive of Medieval Latin grutum (“flour; meal”), from a Germanic source, likely Old English grūt (“meal; grout”) or perhaps Frankish *grūt; both from Proto-Germanic *grūtiz (“ground material; grit”). Compare Dutch gruit, Middle Low German grūt, Middle High German grūz, German Grütze (“grout”). Related also to English groats, grit.

gruel · verb²

From the noun above.

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