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Middle English
/ɡrɛːt/
adj
Definitions
- great (large, significant)
Etymology
Inherited from Old English grēat (big, coarse, great, thick, stour, large, massive) inherited from Proto-Germanic *grautaz (coarse, big, coarse grained, large, big in size, crude, unrefined, thick, great).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*grautaz
Gloss
coarse, big, coarse grained, large, big in size, crude, unrefined, thick, great
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
大
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Great Britain English
- child-great English
- great English
- great grandmaster English
- great great great grandfather English
- great great great grandmother English
- great-great-grandchild English
- great-great-grandfather English
- great-great-grandma English
- great-great-grandmother English
- great-great-grandparent English
- great-great-grandson English
- great-hearted English
- greatcoat English
- greaten English
- greathearted English
- greatly English
- greatness English
- greatsome English
- greatsword English
- nongreat English
- overgreat English
- ungreat English
- grossus Latin
- *ghrewə- Proto-Indo-European
- *gʰrewd- Proto-Indo-European
- *grautaz Proto-Germanic
- great Old English
- greatnes Old English
- grēat Old English
- grēatnes Old English
- grete Middle English
- gretnesse Middle English
- grêt Welsh
- groz Old High German
- grōz Old High German
- *graut gmw-pro
- grot Old Dutch
- grōt Old Dutch
- grot Old Saxon
- grōt Old Saxon
- great Scots
- grāt Old Frisian