grief
French
adj
Definitions
- (archaic) grievous
Etymology
Inherited from Old French grief (grave, heavy, sad, grievous) inherited from Latin grevis, gravis (heavy, grave, important, sad, grievous) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us (heavy).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*gʷréh₂us
Gloss
heavy
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
重
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- gravigrade English
- *grevis Latin
- *ingrevicāre Latin
- *ingrevicō Latin
- *ingrevinō Latin
- brutus Latin
- brūtus Latin
- gravedo Latin
- gravis Latin
- gravitas Latin
- gravitatio Latin
- graviter Latin
- gravitās, gravitātem Latin
- grevis Latin
- m), grave(gravem Latin
- pergravis Latin
- praegravis Latin
- Gravis German
- grave Italian
- grave French
- grièvement French
- βαρύς Ancient Greek
- *gʷreh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *gʷréh₂us Proto-Indo-European
- *kuruz Proto-Germanic
- गुरु Sanskrit
- गौरव Sanskrit
- greef Middle English
- grief Old French
- grava Esperanto
- agreujar Catalan, Valencian
- greu Catalan, Valencian
- greument Catalan, Valencian
- greață Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- greu Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- îngreuna Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- grief Middle Dutch
- grave Old Portuguese
- greatsã Aromanian
- greu Aromanian
- grivi Friulian
- grave Old Spanish
- glʾn' Middle Persian
- گریوا Bakhtiari