English
gravewards
From grave + -wards.
Formed from grave + -wards
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 Towards the grave.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / gravewards