English

Grossman

Grossman comes from German Grossmann.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

A compound of groß ‘great, large, tall’ + Mann ‘man’

Proto-Indo-European *gʰrewd- ‘to rub, grind, remove’

Proto-Germanic *grautaz ‘coarse, crude’

Proto-West Germanic *graut

Old High German grōȥ ‘rough, coarse, crude’

Middle High German grōȥ

German groß ‘great, large, tall’

Proto-Indo-European *mon- ‘man, human being’

Proto-Germanic *mann- ‘human, human being, person, individual’

Proto-West Germanic *mann ‘person, human, individual’

Old High German man ‘man’

Middle High German man ‘man’

German Mann ‘man’

Every English word from German Grossmann

name A surname from German of German and Jewish Ashkenazi origin.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.