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granite readily disintegrate to form a
sandy regolith known locally as
growan. This is
readily stripped off by
solifluction or
surface wash when not protected...
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mentioned below). Perhaps, it
stems from an Old
English root groma,
related to
growan "grow" or from Old
French grommet "servant" (compare
Medieval English gromet...
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gruni Gheg "grain" *gʰreh₁- "to grow" (See also *ǵr̥h₂-nó-) grow (< OE
grōwan);
green (< OE grēne); grey, gray (< OE grǣġ); gr**** (< OE græs);
groom (young...
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apparently after p****ing
through early Middle English /ow/: OE
grōwan ('grow') /
ˈgroːwən/→ LME /ˈɡrɔwə/. However,
early Middle English /owx/
produced by...
- know; crāwa > crow; snāw > snow; sāwol > soul; āgan > to owe; āgen > own;
grōwan > to grow; blōwen > blown; boga > bow /bou/;
flogen >
flown ugV, ūgV /uː/...
- late 1800. On 12
September Robert Fulton sailed his
submarine Nautilus to
Growan, near Isigny-sur-Mer, a
small harbour near the islands. His
objective was...
- (flow),
glowe (glow),
growe (grow) and
stowe (stow) from flōwan, glōwan,
grōwan and stówiġan.
Early Scots /ol/
became vocalised to /o̞u/ by the
Middle Scots...
- the overburden,
which consisted at
least partly of
decomposed granite ("
growan"), was
loosened with picks, and then
water was used to wash away the unwanted...
