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Re: Word of the day; "grumous".

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 Ar an chéad lá de mí Iúil, scríobh Christian Weisgerber: 

 > On 2025-06-30, Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> wrote:
 > 
 > > It’s an unremarkable borrowing from late Latin, OED describes [ad. late L. 
 > > grumus little heap, hillock;]. I can’t find any convincing further
 > > etymology beyond that.
 > 
 > De Vann in the _Etymological Dictionary of Latin_ (2008):
 > 
 > ------------------->
 > grūmus ‘heap of earth, hillock’ [m. o] (Acc.+)
 > Derivatives: dēgrūmare 'to level off (Enn,+).
 >   PIt. *grōmo- ‘heap’.
 >   PIE *h₂ǵr-ōm-o-. IE cognates: see s.v. gremium.
 > 
 > Lat. grumus could be connected with gremium < *grem- and OCS gramada
 > ‘heap, pile’ < *grōm-. [...]

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Word of the day; "grumous". Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> - 2025-06-30 21:45 +0100
  Re: Word of the day; "grumous". HenHanna@NewsGrouper <user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2025-07-01 03:31 +0000
  Re: Word of the day; "grumous". Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> - 2025-07-01 19:29 +0000
    Re: Word of the day; "grumous". Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> - 2025-07-02 06:58 +0100
  Re: Word of the day; "grumous". DDeden <user5108@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2025-08-12 03:48 +0000

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