English
great-grandkid
From great- + grandkid.
Proto-Indo-European *gʰrewd- ‘to rub, grind, remove’
Proto-Germanic *grautaz ‘coarse, crude’
Proto-West Germanic *graut
Old English grēat ‘big’
Middle English grete ‘great’
English great-
Today it means
noun A great-grandchild.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / great-grandkid