Etymology · Proto-Indo-European
*gʰrewd-
4 English words descend from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrewd-, most common first.
- greatTaking up a lot of space; large.
- regretTo feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.
- gritA collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
- nitty-grittyThe core or essence of something; the gist.