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by Sharlin 2598 days ago
> This also gives the origin of the word "grava" which in this context would bean "bury".

And is cognate to English "grave" as in a burial place! Other cognates are Middle English (and modern Dutch) "graven", and German "graben", both meaning "to dig". Ultimately deriving from Proto-Germanic *grabaną. "Groove" is also related. Interestingly the adjective sense of "grave" in English (as in "serious") is of unrelated Romance origin (cf. "gravid", "gravity", "gravitas").

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Similar to "grob" in Russian where the "o" is pronounced like in "open".
Very similar to gropë in Albanian which means hole Gërrmoj - to dig a hole