Masculine
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
Dialects

Zürich

Zürich

grund

Fribourg

Fribourg

grùnd

Graubünden

Graubünden

grund

Lucerne

Lucerne

grond

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɡʁʊnt/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle High German grunt, from Old High German grunt, from Proto-West Germanic *grundu, 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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