grame

Meanings

Noun

• Anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.
• Sorrow; grief; misery.

Verb

• To vex; grill; make angry or sorry.
• To grieve; to be sorry; to fret; to be vexed or displeased.

Origin

• From Middle English grame, gram, grome, from Old English grama ("rage, anger, trouble, devil, demon"), from Proto-Germanic *gramô ("anger"), *gramaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- ("to rub, grind, scrape"). Cognate with Middle Low German gram ("anger"), German Gram ("grief, sorrow"), Old Danish gram ("devil"), Icelandic gramir, gröm. Related to gram, grim.
• From Middle English gramen, gramien, from Old English gramian, gremian, from Proto-Germanic *gramjaną ("to grill, vex, irritate, grieve"), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- ("to rub, grind, scrape"). Cognate with German grämen ("to grieve"), Danish græmme ("to grieve"), Swedish gräma ("to grieve, mortify, vex").