grove

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. A small forest.
2. An orchard of fruit trees.
3. A place of worship.
4. A lodge of the Ancient Order of Druids.

Verb

1. To cultivate in groves; to grow naturally so as to form groves.
2. To cultivate with periodic harvesting that also serves to create order (gaps and lines of trees) to facilitate further harvesting.
3. To plough or gouge with lines.

Concepten

bosschage

bos

woud

bosje

foreest

gewei

hout

gaarde

loo

hakhout

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ɡɹəʊv/

Etymologie (Engels)

From Middle English grove, grave, from Old English grāf, grāfa (“grove; copse”), from Proto-West Germanic *graib, *graibō (“branch, group of branches, thicket”), from Proto-Germanic *graibaz, *graibô (“branch, fork”).
Related to Old English grǣf, grǣfe (“brushwood; thicket; copse”), Old English grǣfa (“thicket”), dialectal Norwegian greive (“ram with splayed horns”), dialectal Norwegian greivlar (“ramifications of an antler”), dialectal Norwegian grivla (“to branch, branch out”), Old Norse grein (“twig, branch, limb”). More at greave.