Etymograph

English

grame

Grame comes from Middle English grame ‘rage, anger, hatred, hostility’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- ‘to rub, grind, scrape’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*gʰrem-‘to rub, grind, scrape’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*gramô‘anger’reconstructed
  3. Old Englishc. 450–1150grama‘rage, anger, trouble, devil, demon’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500grame‘rage, anger, hatred, hostility’
  5. Englishearliest quotation a. 1542same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*gʰrem-‘to rub, grind, scrape’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*gramô‘anger’reconstructed
  3. Old Englishc. 450–1150grama‘rage, anger, trouble, devil, demon’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500grame‘rage, anger, hatred, hostility’
  5. Englishearliest quotation a. 1542same form

Earliest quotation: a. 1542, Thomas Wyatt, And wylt thow leve me thus: “to save the from the Blame of all my…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- ‘to rub, grind, scrape’

ground, grim, groin, grunting, pogrom, 4 more

Today it means

noun Anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- / grame

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