growan

English

Etymology

Compare Armorican grouan (“gravel”), Cornish grow (“gravel, sand”).

Noun

growan (countable and uncountable, plural growans)

  1. (Britain, mining) A decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for growan in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Old English

Alternative forms
  • grōƿan

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *grōaną (“to grow, become green”), Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁-, *g(')ʰerə- (“to grow, grow green”). Cognate with Old Frisian grōwa (“to grow”), Middle Dutch groeyen, grōyen (“to grow”) (Dutch groeien), Old High German gruoen (“to grow, thrive, flourish”), Old Norse grōa (“to grow, become green”), Old English græs (“grass”), Old English grēne (“green”). More at grass, green.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɡroːwɑn/

Verb

grōwan

  1. (of plants) to grow

Conjugation
Conjugation of grōwan (strong class 7)
infinitive grōwan tō grōwenne
indicative present past
1st-person singular grōwe grēow
2nd-person singular grēwest grēowe
3rd-person singular grēweþ grēow
plural grōwaþ grēowon
subjunctive present past
singular grōwe grēowe
plural grōwen grēowen
imperative
singular grōw
plural grōwaþ
participle present past
grōwende (ġe)grōwen

Derived terms

Derived terms
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