English

group

/ɡɹuːp/
A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

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    Origin

    From French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group, bag (of money)”). Displaced native Old English hād (“tribe, group”).

    In the "group theory" sense, calqued from French groupe, a term coined by the young French mathematician Évariste Galois in 1830.

    Cognate with German Kropf (“crop, craw, bunch”); Old English cropp, croppa (“cluster, bunch, sprout, flower, berry, ear of corn, crop”) (whence English crop); Dutch krop (“craw”), Icelandic kroppr (“hump, bunch”). Doublet of crop and croup. Compare Persian گروه.

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    • borrowedFrenchgroupe
    • borrowedItaliangruppo
      • inheritedVulgar Latin*cruppus
        • borrowedFrankish*krupp
          • derivedProto-Germanic*kruppaz “body, trunk, crop”
            • derivedProto-Indo-European*grewbʰ-

    Related: English crop, English crop (doublet), English croup (doublet), German Kropf, Old English cropp, Dutch krop, Icelandic kroppr

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