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5-letter words (1 found)

GRUNT,

4-letter words (6 found)

GURN,RUNG,RUNT,TRUG,TUNG,TURN,

3-letter words (13 found)

GNU,GUN,GUR,GUT,NUG,NUR,NUT,RUG,RUN,RUT,TUG,TUN,URN,

2-letter words (6 found)

GU,NU,UG,UN,UR,UT,

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Definitions and meaning of grunt

grunt

Etymology

From Middle English grunten, from Old English grunnettan (“to grunt”), from Proto-West Germanic *grunnattjan, from Proto-Germanic *grunnatjaną (“to grunt”), frequentative of Proto-Germanic *grunnōną (“to grunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrun- (“to shout”).

Cognate with German grunzen (“to grunt”), Danish grynte (“to grunt”). The noun senses are all instances of zero derivation from the verb.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɹʌnt/
  • Rhymes: -ʌnt

Noun

grunt (plural grunts)

  1. A short snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak.
  2. The snorting cry of a pig.
  3. Any fish of the perciform family Haemulidae.
  4. A person who does ordinary and boring work.
    Synonyms: gofer, lackey, peon
  5. (US, military slang) An infantry soldier.
    Coordinate term: pogue
  6. (slang) The amount of power of which a vehicle is capable.
  7. (Canada, US) A dessert of steamed berries and dough, usually blueberries; blueberry grunt.
    Synonyms: fungy, fungee

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

grunt (third-person singular simple present grunts, present participle grunting, simple past and past participle grunted)

  1. (intransitive, of a person) To make a grunt or grunts.
  2. (intransitive, of a pig) To make a grunt or grunts.
  3. (intransitive, UK, slang) To break wind; to fart.

Translations

See also

The frequentative form gruntle.

References

Masurian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish grunt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɡrunt]
  • Syllabification: grunt

Noun

grunt m inan

  1. estate; farm (owned land)
  2. soil (arable land)
  3. ground (bottom of a lake or pond)
  4. topsoil (top or subcutaneous layer of earth)
  5. base, ground; precipitate

Verb

grunt impf

  1. the most important thing is

Further reading

  • Zofia Stamirowska (1987-2021) “grunt”, in Anna Basara, editor, Słownik gwar Ostródzkiego, Warmii i Mazur‎[2], volume 2, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, →ISBN, page 328

Middle English

Verb

grunt

  1. Alternative form of grunten

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

grunt

  1. neuter singular of grunn

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

grunt

  1. neuter singular of grunn

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *grunduz.

Noun

grunt m

  1. ground

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Middle Dutch: gront
    • Dutch: grond

Further reading

  • “grunt”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *grunduz.

Noun

grunt m

  1. ground
  2. root
  3. hollow

Declension

Derived terms

  • gruntfrost

Descendants

  • Middle High German: grunt
    • Cimbrian: grund, grumf (< with epenthetic -f- *grumfþuz)
    • German: Grund
    • Luxembourgish: Grond
    • → Old Polish: grunt
      • Masurian: grunt
      • Polish: grunt, gront, grąt
        • → Kashubian: gruńt, grëńt
      • Silesian: grōnt
    • → Russian: грунт (grunt)
      • → Serbo-Croatian: грунт
    • Yiddish: גרונט (grunt)

References

  • Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014

Old Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle High German grunt. First attested in 1402.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /ɡrunt/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ɡrunt/

Noun

grunt m animacy unattested

  1. ground; field; land
  2. core (basis of a given thing, foundation)

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • Masurian: grunt
  • Polish: grunt, gront, grąt
    • → Kashubian: gruńt, grëńt
  • Silesian: grōnt

References

  • Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “grunt”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  • Mańczak, Witold (2017) “grunt”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  • Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “grunt”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  • Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965) “grunt”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
  • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “grunt”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

Alternative forms

  • gront, grąt (Middle Polish)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish grunt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡrunt/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈɡrunt/
  • Rhymes: -unt
  • Syllabification: grunt

Noun

grunt m inan (diminutive gruncik, related adjective gruntowy)

  1. (countable) ground (arable soil or earth)
    Synonyms: gleba, rola, ziemia
  2. (countable) ground (surface of the earth in a specific place)
    Synonym: ziemia
  3. (chiefly in the plural, officialese) ground (area of land that is owned by someone)
    Synonym: teren
  4. (uncountable, masonry) mortar; primer (substance that binds strongly to the substrate, used as a base for painting, plastering and polishing)
    Synonym: zaprawa
  5. (uncountable, literary) base; primer (previously prepared basis for certain actions; essential element of something) [+ dla (genitive)] [+ pod (accusative) = for what]
    Synonym: podstawa
  6. (uncountable, literary) foundation; core (certain ideological, cultural whole, characteristic of a specific country or social environment)
  7. (countable) ground (bottom of a body of water)
  8. (countable, obsolete) foundation (bottom of a construction)
    Synonym: fundament
  9. (countable, obsolete) core (reason or cause for something)
  10. (uncountable, obsolete) land; continent (area of the earth not covered by water)
    Synonym: ląd
  11. (Middle Polish) world
    Synonym: świat
  12. (Middle Polish) background
    Synonym: tło
  13. (Middle Polish) source; documentation; evidence (document or fact that can be relied upon)
  14. (Middle Polish) certainty, solidness
  15. (Middle Polish) source (place where something arises)
  16. (Middle Polish) etymology; etymon
    Synonym: źródłosłów
  17. (Middle Polish) original version of something
    Synonym: oryginał
  18. (Middle Polish) pattern, symbol
  19. (Middle Polish) prepositional phrase
  20. (Middle Polish) fundament; Further details are uncertain.

Usage notes

The nominative and accusative plural form grunta is dated.

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • → Kashubian: gruńt, grëńt

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), grunt is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 12 times in scientific texts, 3 times in news, 23 times in essays, 14 times in fiction, and 12 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 64 times, making it the 1022nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

Further reading

  • grunt in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • grunt in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “grunt”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • “GRUNT”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 25.05.2009
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “grunt”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎[8]
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “grunt”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎[9]
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “grunt”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎[10] (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 921

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Grund.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡrûnt/

Noun

grȕnt m (Cyrillic spelling гру̏нт)

  1. (regional) plot of land, lot

Declension

Swedish

Adjective

grunt

  1. indefinite neuter singular of grund

Adverb

grunt

  1. shallowly

Source: wiktionary.org