Grube

 

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Grube

1. A surname.
2. A municipality in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

• Burge, gebur, guber

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡʁuːbə/
• Hyphenation: Gru‧be

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From Middle High German grūbe, gruobe, from Old High German gruoba, from Proto-Germanic *grōbō (“groove, furrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scrape, bury”). Cognate with English groove. Doublet of Groove.

Grube f (genitive Grube, plural Gruben, diminutive Grübchen n or Grüblein n)

1. pit
2. (mining) mine

• Grubenschacht, Grubenunglück
• Fallgrube, Müllgrube, Sandgrube, Wolfsgrube
• wer andern eine Grube gräbt, fällt selbst hinein

• → Danish: grube
• → Ukrainian: груба (hruba)
  • → Romanian: hrubă
• → Saterland Frisian: Gruube
• → Silesian: gruba
• → Swedish: gruva

 

German Wikipedia has an article on:

Grube (Holstein)

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Grube n (proper noun, genitive Grubes or (optionally with an article) Grube)

1. A municipality of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

• “Grube” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• “Grube” in Duden online
• “Grube” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache