English
graveward
From grave + -ward.
A compound of grave + -ward
Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- ‘to dig, scratch, scrape’
Proto-Germanic *grabą
Proto-West Germanic *grab
Old English græf ‘cave, grave, trench’
Middle English grave ‘grave, burial’
English grave
Today it means
adv Toward the grave.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / graveward