gruve.
a mine
Meaning & usage
a mine
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Danish grube, from German Grube, which see. The form with -v- is an artificial (puristic) adaptation to the related verb grave (“to dig”), likely inspired by dialectal Norwegian gruve, gruva, a variant of the doublet grue (“fireplace, firepit”), and/or by Swedish gruva.
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