grimm

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grimm (strong nominative masculine singular grimmer, not comparable)

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• “grimm”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)

• grim

From Proto-West Germanic *grimm, from Proto-Germanic *grimmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to thunder”).

Cognate with Old Saxon grim, Old High German grim (German grimm, grimmig), Old Norse grimmr (Danish grim, Swedish grym); and with Greek χρεμίζω (chremízo), Old Church Slavonic грьмѣти (grĭměti) (Russian греме́ть (gremétʹ)), Latvian gremt. See grim for further information.

• IPA^(key): /ɡrimm/, [ɡrim]

grimm

1. fierce, savage, terrible, cruel, angry

• grimlīċ

• Middle English: grim
  • Scots: grim
  • English: grim