köken: Borrowed from French groupe, from Italian gruppo, groppo, from Vulgar Latin *cruppus, (cf. Renaissance Latin grupus), from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“lump, group, body, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to crumple, bend, crawl”). Doublet of Kropf.
köken: From Middle Persian [script needed] (hwšk' /hōšag/, “ear of corn, cluster; the star Spica, the constellation Virgo”), borrowed into Old Armenian խոշակ (xošak) and into Arabic حُوشَاكِيّ (ḥūšākiyy, “two-grained wheat”). Note also the mushroom-name غوشْنَه (ġōšna), غوشَنَه (ġōšana) passed into Arabic غَوْشَنَة (ḡawšana, “morel”). Probably from Proto-Iranian *Hawšaka-, a derivative of…