köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese cova, from Vulgar Latin *cova, from covus, alternative form of Latin cavus (or from a variant of Late Latin cava, from cavum, cavus), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱówHwos (“cavity”). Compare Spanish cueva.
köken: From Old Norse grǫf, gröf, from Proto-Germanic *grabą, *grabō (“grave, trench, ditch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrābʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Compare Norwegian and Danish grav, Icelandic gröf, English grave, Dutch graf, German Grab.
aile: dansa på någons grav, från vaggan till graven, gravallvarlig, gravsten, gräva sin egen grav, gå i graven, pissa på någons grav, stå med ena foten i graven, ta med sig något i graven, vända sig i graven
köken: Inherited from Old Czech hrob, from Proto-Slavic *grobъ. Compare Serbo-Croatian grȍb and groblje (“grave”), German Grab (“grave”) and graben (“to dig”), Czech and Slovak hrob (“grave”).
köken: From Old Hungarian ſyher (šiɣer), from Proto-Finno-Ugric *čikere. First attested in 1055. According to the New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian it is of uncertain origin and the Finno-Ugric origin is incorrect for chronological and phonological reasons.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- Proto-Balto-Slavic *grebtei Proto-Slavic *gretì Proto-Slavic *grobъ Old Polish grób Polish grób Inherited from Old Polish grób.