regretter
French
verb
Definitions
- to regret
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French regretter, regreter inherited from Old French regreter (lament), greter (weep) derived from Frankish *grātan (weep, mourn, lament) derived from Proto-Germanic *grētaną (weep, moan, cry, lament) derived from Frankish *greotan (weep, cry) derived from Proto-Germanic *greutaną (cry, weep) derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrew- (grind, rub, be sad, weep).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*gʰrew-
Gloss
grind, rub, be sad, weep
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- regrettable French
- regrettablement French
- χρῶμα Ancient Greek
- *gʰrew- Proto-Indo-European
- *gʰrewd- Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵʰreh₁d- Proto-Indo-European
- gråte Norwegian Bokmål
- *gredaną Proto-Germanic
- *greutaną Proto-Germanic
- *grētaną Proto-Germanic
- *grētaz Proto-Germanic
- gråta Norwegian Nynorsk
- begrætan Old English
- grǣtan Old English
- regretten Middle English
- gráta Old Norse
- grátinn Old Norse
- græde Danish
- udgræde Danish
- greter Old French
- regreter Old French
- gráta Icelandic
- gráta Faroese
- regretter Middle French
- regretter, regreter Middle French
- 𐌲𐍂𐌴𐍄𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *greutan gmw-pro
- *grātan gmw-pro
- gratan Old Saxon
- griotan Old Saxon
- grata Old Swedish
- grāta, grata Old Swedish
- *greotan Frankish
- *greutan Frankish
- *grātan Frankish
- regrete Mauritian Creole
- regrete Seychellois Creole