Grund

Meaning

  1. (masculine,strong) ground, land (usually as someone's property)
  2. (masculine,strong) bottom (of a container or a body of water)
  3. (figuratively,masculine,strong) reason; motive, cause

Frequency

A1
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɡʁʊnt/
Etymology

From Middle High German grunt, from Old High German grunt, from Proto-Germanic *grunduz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰr̥mtu-. Cognate with West Frisian grûn, Dutch grond, English ground. Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian grundë (“brittle earth”) and gryej (“to erode, crumble”).

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