Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/grōm

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Alternative forms

*grōmō

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *grōaną (“to grow”).

Noun

*grōm n

growth, swelling
stomach tumor
fetus, womb-child
entrails
fish roe

Inflection

Neuter a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*grōm
Genitive	*grōmas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*grōm	*grōmu
Accusative	*grōm	*grōmu
Genitive	*grōmas	*grōmō
Dative	*grōmē	*grōmum
Instrumental	*grōmu	*grōmum

Related terms

*grōan

Descendants

Note: Many descendants were conflated with Proto-West Germanic *grum (“granule, grit, dirt, speck”).

Old English: *grōma, *grōm
- Middle English: grome, grom, groome
  - English: groom
    - → Dutch: groom
  - Scots: grome, grume
  - → Old French: gromme, groume
    - ⇒ Old French: groumet
      - Middle French: gourmet
        French: gourmet
        → English: gourmet
  - → Icelandic: grómr, gromr
Old Frisian: *grōma, *grōm
- West Frisian: grom, gram, grim
Old Saxon: *grōmo, *grōm
- Middle Low German: grôm, grom, grum
Old Dutch: *grōmo, *grōm
- Middle Dutch: grom
  - Dutch: grom