Etymograph

English

Grus

Grus comes from Latin grūs ‘a crane (bird)’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgrūs‘a crane (bird)’
  2. EnglishtodayGrus

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgrūs‘a crane (bird)’
  2. EnglishtodayGrus

The story

Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597.

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- ‘to cry hoarsely’

cricket, crane, crow, crick, geranium, creak, 6 more

Today it means

name A spring constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a crane. It contains the star Alnair and lies south of the constellation Piscis Austrinus.

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

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