GROVE (O.E.

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• GRAF, ARTURO (1848– )
• GRAF, KARL HEINRICH (1815–1869)

graf, cf. O.E. gr(efa, brushwood, later" greave "; the word does not appear in any other

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• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic

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• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language, and the New

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• ENGLISH

English

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• DICTIONARY

Dictionary finds no Indo-

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• EUROPEAN

European

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• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root to which it can be referred;

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• SKEAT, WALTER WILLIAM (1835– )

Skeat considers it connected with "

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• GRAVE

grave," to  cut, and finds the original meaning to be a glade cut through a wood), a small group or cluster of trees, growing naturally and forming something smaller than a wood, or planted in particular shapes or for particular purposes, in a park, &c . Groves have been connected with religious worship from the earliest times, and in many parts of India every village has its sacred group of trees . For the connexion of religion with sacred groves see TREE-WORSHIP . The word " grove " was used by the authors of the Authorized Version of the Bible to translate two Hebrew words: (I) 'eshel, as in Gen. xxi . 33, and 1 Sam. xxii . 6; this is rightly given in the Revised Version as " tamarisk "; (2) asherah in many places throughout the Old Testament . Here the translators followed the Septuagint aAoos and the Vulgate items . The 'dsherdh was a wooden post erected at the Canaanitish places of worship, and also by the altars of Yahweh . It may have represented a tree .