alt Hacker NewsIt also means crane in French, both the construction kind and the bird. When I first saw the name I guessed there must be some relationship to cranes.
It also means crane in French, both the construction kind and the bird. When I first saw the name I guessed there must be some relationship to cranes.
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).