grunt
/ɡrʌnt/
- vi.
- 作呼噜声
- vt.
- 咕哝
- n.
- 呼噜声，咕哝
中文释义来自 ECDICT
词源链
- 英语English
grunt
词源说明
From Middle English grunten, from Old English grunnettan (“to grunt”), from Proto-West Germanic *grunnattjan, from Proto-Germanic *grunnatjaną (“to grunt”), frequentative of Proto-Germanic *grunnōną (“to grunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrun- (“to shout”).
Cognate with German grunzen (“to grunt”), Danish grynte (“to grunt”). The noun senses are all instances of zero derivation from the verb.