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linguist2 3 days ago

Others:

French: grue may also crane both as the bird and the construction machine.

Italian: gru also means crane (bird).

Norwegian: grue may either mean the verb "to dread” or a noun meaning fireplace/hearth.

Gheg Albanian (dialect): grue means wife/woman.

Primarily Scottish but also Northern English (regionalism): (1) ground-gru / grue means a half-liquid snow or ice that forms and floats on the surface of a river, sometimes thought to have risen from the riverbed. (2) a tiny bit or particle, e.g. He hasn’t a grue of sense.

Similar words:

Latin: grus may mean a crane (bird) or a type of siege engine / war machine bearing similarity to the neck of a crane (bird).

Catalan: grua - same as French.

Esperanto: gruo also means crane (bird) or machine.

Swiss German (dialect): grüezi means "God greets you".

Romanian: grâu means wheat.

English: GRU is term for Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravlenie).