grue
French
noun
Definitions
- crane bird
- crane machine
- (colloquial) prostitute, hooker
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin *grua, gruem, grūs, grus (crane).
Origin
Latin
gruem, grūs, grus
Gloss
crane
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
鶴
Emoji
🏗️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Grus English
- Gruyère English
- *grua Latin
- *gruum Latin
- Gruerius Latin
- gruem, grūs, grus Latin
- grūs Latin
- Kran German
- Kranbeere German
- gru Italian
- gruter French
- grutier French
- gruyère French
- *gerh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- grua Portuguese
- grús Irish
- gruo Esperanto
- kran Serbo-Croatian
- grua Catalan, Valencian
- grou Galician
- gruie Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- krane Middle High German
- gru Old Portuguese
- krān Middle Low German
- grua Occitan
- grua Old Spanish
- sigrud Volapük
- gruya Ladino
- kran Crimean Tatar