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begrave

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
be-grave
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To bury.

Obsolete; Transitive verb

verb

To engrave.

Obsolete; Transitive verb

Etymology

From Middle English begraven, from Old English begrafan (“to bury”), from Proto-Germanic *bigrabaną (“to dig around, bury”), equivalent to be- + grave. Cognate with Saterland Frisian begreeuwe (“to bury”), West Frisian begrave (“to bury”), Dutch begraven (“to bury”), German begraben (“to bury”), Danish begrave (“to bury”), Swedish begrava (“to bury”), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐌲𐍂𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌽 (bigraban, “to dig around”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: *gʰrebʰ-, begraven, begrafan, *bigrabaną

Usage

Inflected Forms

begraves (present, singular) begraving (participle, present) begraved (past) begrove (past) begraved (participle, past) begrove (participle, past) begraven (participle, past)

Questions

What does begrave mean?
To bury.
Where does begrave come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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