IF „to grate“ = kratzen THEN grateful = kratzbürstig?
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IF „to grate“ = kratzen THEN grateful = kratzbürstig?
MOD: Titel archivtauglich gemacht.
IF „to grate“ = kratzen THEN grateful = kratzbürstig?

Gratitious greetings,
Elke
No
Hi!
grateful = dankbar 
to grate = kratzen, schaben
Best wishes
Siân
good research, thank you!
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Hallo Franz,
hier noch mal die Einträge aus dem etymologlischen Lexikon:
grate (n.) - c.1400, from M.L. grata „lattice,“ from L. cratis „wickerwork.“
grate (v.) - 1390 (implied in grater), from O.Fr. grater „to scrape,“ from Frank. *kratton, from P.Gmc. *krattojan (cf. O.H.G. krazzon „to scratch, scrape“), probably of imitative origin. Senses of „sound harshly,“ and „annoy“ are 16c.
grateful - 1552, from obsolete adj. grate „agreeable, thankful,“ from L. gratus „pleasing“ (see grace). „A most unusual formation“ [Weekley]. Hard to think of another case where Eng. uses -ful to make an adj. from an adj. Grateful Dead, the San Francisco rock band, took its name, according to Jerry Garcia, from a dictionary entry he saw about the folk tale motif of a wanderer who gives his last penny to pay for a corpse’s burial, then is magically aided by the spirit of the dead person. A different version of the concept is found in the Hebrew Kaddish and the Egyptian Book of the Dead.
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