grunda

Perhaps a backformation from suggrunda, from Proto-Italic *ɣrondā, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrondʰ-h₂ (collective), from *gʰrendʰ- (“beam, plank”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡrun.da/, [ˈɡrʊn̪d̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡrun.da/, [ˈɡrun̪d̪ä]

grunda f (genitive grundae); first declension

1. roof
2. eaves
3. gutter

First-declension noun.

• suggrunda
• suggrundium

• Italian: gronda
• Piedmontese: gronda

• “grunda”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• grunda in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

grund +‎ -a

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grunda

1. inflection of grund:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

grunda (present grundar, preterite grundade, supine grundat, imperative grunda)

1. to found, to establish

   Staden grundades under medeltiden.

   The city was founded during the Middle Ages.

2. to base (ideas or the like, on something)

   Mina åsikter är grundade på åratal av studier

   My opinions are based on years of study

   Vad grundar du det på?

   On what do you base that?

   ett land grundat på demokratiska principer

   a country founded on democratic principles

3. to add a bottom layer of something, often primer paint

   grunda med vit målarfärg

   prime with white paint

To ground in the electrical sense is jorda.

• grundlägga

• grundare
• grundning

• grunda in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• grunda in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• grunda in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• dungar