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gru

Pronunciation: /ɡruː/

“gru” is a Danish word. Its meaning in English:

noun

  1. horror

Etymology

From grue (“to dread”), from Low German grue, from Middle Low German gruwen, from Proto-Germanic *grūwijaną, perhaps ultimately an imitative derivative of Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰers- (“to bristle”), or instead from *gʰer- (“to rub, stroke, grind”).

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