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DANISH · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

gru.

horror

3 characters1 syllables approx.Dansk language

Meaning & usage

noun/ɡruː/[ɡ̊ʁuːˀ]
  1. horror

    common-gender · no-plural
Where this word comes from

From grue (“to dread”), from Low German grue, from Middle Low German gruwen, from Proto-Germanic *grūwijaną, perhaps ultimately an imitative derivative of Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰers- (“to bristle”), or instead from *gʰer- (“to rub, stroke, grind”).

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