groba

Galician

Attested as (illa) grova in Medieval Latin local documents. From Suevic or Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐍉𐌱𐌰 (grōba, “dugout, hole, cave”), from Proto-Germanic *grōbō (“cavity, pit”), from Proto-Germanic *grabaną (“to dig”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰróbʰ-, o-grade form of *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scratch, bury”).^[1]

groba f (plural grobas)

ravine, defile
Synonym: quenlla
groove; long and deep depression in the terrain (frequently applied to old Roman open air mines and Iron Age hill-fort ditches)
Synonyms: cárcava, cavorco

Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “groua”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “groba”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “groba”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “groba”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

^ Guus Kroonen (2013) Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

grōba

Borrowed from Russian гроб (grob).

groba

Declension of groba (type 3/koira, no gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	groba	grobat
genitive	groban	grobbiin
partitive	grobbaa	grobbia
illative	grobbaa	grobbii
inessive	grobas	grobis
elative	grobast	grobist
allative	groballe	grobille
adessive	grobal	grobil
ablative	grobalt	grobilt
translative	grobaks	grobiks
essive	grobanna, grobbaan	grobinna, grobbiin
exessive¹⁾	grobant	grobint
¹⁾ obsolete ^) the accusative* corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) ^) the comitative** is formed by adding the suffix -ka^? or -kä^? to the genitive.

Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 207
Arvo Laanest (1978) Isuri keele ajalooline foneetika ja morfoloogia [The historical phonology and morphology of the Ingrian language]‎^[2], Tallinn, page 27

groba

groba m anim

Declension of groba

Starosta, Manfred (1999) “groba”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag