Etymograph

English

grame

Grame comes from Middle English grame ‘rage, anger, hatred, hostility’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- ‘to rub, grind, scrape’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*gʰrem-1‘to rub, grind, scrape’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*gramô1‘anger’reconstructed
  3. Old Englishc. 450–1150grama1‘rage, anger, trouble, devil, demon’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500grame1‘rage, anger, hatred, hostility’
  5. Englishearliest quotation a. 1542grame1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English grame
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: a. 1542, Thomas Wyatt, And wylt thow leve me thus: “to save the from the Blame of all my…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*gʰrem-Wiktionary, English grame‘to rub, grind, scrape’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*gramôWiktionary, English grame‘anger’reconstructed
  3. Old Englishc. 450–1150gramaWiktionary, English grame‘rage, anger, trouble, devil, demon’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500grameWiktionary, English grame‘rage, anger, hatred, hostility’
  5. Englishearliest quotation a. 1542grameWiktionary, English grame. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: a. 1542, Thomas Wyatt, And wylt thow leve me thus: “to save the from the Blame of all my…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- ‘to rub, grind, scrape’

ground, grim, groin, grunting, pogrom, 4 more

Today it means

noun Anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “grame”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- / grame

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