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From Middle English groof, grofe ("mining shart"), which comes from Old English *grof ("trench, furrow, something dug"), which comes from Proto-Germanic *grobo ("groove, furrow"), which comes from Proto-Indo-European *ghrebh- ("to dig, scrape, bury"). Cognate with Dutch groef, groeve("groove; pit, grave"), German grube ("ditch, pit"), Norweigian grov ("brook, riverbed"), Old English grafan ("to dig").

Basically, it originates from the Middle English groof, grofe which itself originates from many other words.

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