Noun: grue
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | grue |
| Plural f | grues |
Sample Sentences
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La Grue se laisse enfin persuader par ses serments (At length, on his taking an oath, a Crane was prevailed on) [(Can we date this quote?), Phaedrus, translated by Levasseur and J. Chenu, Fables, sourced from https://teach-me-a-language.help/the-wolf-and-the-crane-english-french/:]
Nouns inflected like grue
polémochorie,
kératotomie,
farigoule,
compréhension,
palestre,
abnégation,
hyperuricémie,
psychométrie,
minicassette,
piézo-électricité,
potabilité,
aromathérapie,
conjugalité,
conjugaison,
cohésion,
obscurité,
bacillose,
cohæsion,
aponévrotomie,
sylvie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-ōws
4. Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂ōwsder.
5. Proto-Indo-European *-usinflu.
6. Proto-Indo-European *gérh₂us ~ *gr̥h₂éws
7. Proto-Italic *grūs
8. Latin grūs, gruemder.
9. Late Latin grua
10. French grue
11. Inherited from Late Latin grua, from Latin gruem. See: Latin Nouns '
grūs'.
Verbs referencing "grue"
Italian Nouns
gru, English Nouns
grouse, Portuguese Nouns
grua, German Nouns
Kran, French Nouns
gruyère, Romanian Nouns
gruie.
Translations