grub
意味
- 〈木・草の根〉を掘り起こす,根こそぎにする《+up(out+名,+名+up(out)》
- 掘る,掘って捜す《+around(about)》
- あくせく働く
- ウジ,昆虫の幼虫
- 《話》食い物)
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English grubben, grobben, from Old English *grubbian, from Proto-West Germanic *grubb-, from Proto-Germanic *grubb- (compare Middle Dutch grobben (“to scrape, scramble, grab”), Old High German grubilōn (“to dig, search”), German grübeln (“to meditate, ponder”)), from Proto-Germanic *grub- (“to dig”) (see *grabaną). The noun sense of "larva" is from Middle English grub, grubbe, grobbe, crubbe and may derive from the notion of "digging insect" from the verb above, or from the uncertainly related Middle English grub (“dwarfish fellow”). Compare West Frisian krobbe (“beetle”).