gropë
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to scratch, dig”). Akin to Romanian groapă. Compare Old Norse grǫf (“pit, pothole, grave”), grǫptr (“graving, grave, burial, funeral”), Old Church Slavonic гробъ (grobŭ, “grave”) and English grave. Alternatively related to southeastern Montenegrin dialectal form (grȍp) of Serbo-Croatian grȍb.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: gro‧pë
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