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grave

Pronunciation: /ɡraːʋə/

“grave” is a Danish word. Its 3 meanings in English:

verb

  1. dig (to move hard-packed earth out of the way)

adverb

  1. grave (low in pitch, tone etc.)
  2. accent grave – accent grave, grave accent

Etymology

From Old Norse grafa (“to dig, bury”), from Proto-Germanic *grabaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrābʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”).

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