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grame en · NOUN · etymology 1
Etymology
From Middle English grame, gram, grome, from Old English grama (“rage, anger, trouble, devil, demon”), from Proto-Germanic *gramô (“anger”), *gramaz (“fiend, enemy”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to rub, grind, scrape”). Cognate with Middle Dutch gram (“angry”), Dutch gram (“wrath”), Middle Low German gram (“anger”), German Gram (“grief, sorrow”), Old Danish gram (“devil”), Icelandic gramir, gröm (“fiends, demons”). Related to gram (“angry”, adjective), grim.
God's strength shall be my trust, / Fall it to good or grame / 'Tis in his name. 1872, Rossetti, Staff & Scrip, Poems (ed. 6), 49
to save the from the Blame
of all my greffe & grame a. 1542, Thomas Wyatt, “And wylt thow leve me thus” in the Devonshire Manuscript, folio 17 recto, lines 3 and 4
Age doth me mvche grame. 1548, Smyth & Dame, section 218:
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grame en · VERB · etymology 2
Etymology
From Middle English gramen, gramien, from Old English gramian, gremian (“to anger, enrage”), 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”).
Meanings
(obsolete, transitive) To vex; grill; make angry or sorry.
Men may leave all games, / That sailën to St James; / For many a man it grames / When they begin to sail.
For when they have take the sea, / At Sandwich, or at Winchelsea, / At Bristol, or where that it may be, / Their hearts begin to fail. 1888, Henry Macaulay Fitzgibbon, Early English and Scottish Poetry, 1250-1600, page 235:
(intransitive, obsolete) To grieve; to be sorry; to fret; to be vexed or displeased.
The crane and the curlewe thereat gan to grame. 1526, John Skelton, Magnyfycence, published 1864: