köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-ōws Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂ōwsder. Proto-Indo-European *-usinflu. Proto-Indo-European *gérh₂us ~ *gr̥h₂éws Proto-Italic *grūs Latin grūs, gruemder. Vulgar Latin *grua French grue Inherited from Vulgar Latin *grua, from Latin gruem.
aile: faire le pied de grue, grue de Sibérie, grue royale, gruon, gruter, grutier
La Grue se laisse enfin persuader par ses serments
köken: From Latin gruem f or m (“crane”), from Proto-Indo-European *gr̥h₂ú-, from *gerh₂- (“to cry hoarsely”). Cognate with French grue f, Spanish grua f, Portuguese grou m, Romanian grui m.
köken: From Proto-Finno-Ugric *tërka. Compare similar words for crane across Eurasia, including Proto-Turkic *turńa (“crane”) (whence Turkish turna), Korean 두루미 (durumi, “crane”), Japanese 鶴 (tsuru, “crane”), Mongolian тогоруу (togoruu, “crane”)).