Grip
Old English grippa (verb), gripe ‘grasp, clutch’ (noun), gripa ‘handful, sheath’; related to gripe.
wiktionary
From Middle English grippen, from Old English grippan, from a Proto-Germanic *gripjaną (compare Old High German gripfen); compare the related Old English grīpan, whence English gripe. See also grope, and the related Proto-Germanic *grīpaną.
From Middle English grippe, gripe, an amalgam of Old English gripe(“grasp, hold”) (cognate with German Griff) and Old English gripa(“handful”) (cognate with Swedish grepp).
From Middle English grip, grippe, gryppe(“a ditch, drain”), from Old English grēp(“a furrow, burrow”) and grēpe(“a furrow, ditch, drain”), from Proto-Germanic *grōpiz(“a furrow, groove”). Cognate with Middle Dutch grippe, gruppe(“ditch, drain”), greppe, German Low German Gruppe(“ditch, drain”). Related also to Old English grōp(“a ditch, drain”). More at groop.
From Middle English gripe, from Old French gripe, from Latin grypus, gryphus.
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grip (v.)
Old English grippan "to grip, seize, obtain" (class I strong verb; past tense grap, past participle gripen), from West Germanic *greipanan (source also of Old High German gripfen "to rob," Old English gripan "to seize;" see gripe (v.)). Related: Gripped; gripping. French gripper "to seize," griffe "claw" are Germanic loan-words.
grip (n.)
c. 1200, "act of grasping or seizing; power or ability to grip," fusion of Old English gripe "grasp, clutch" and gripa "handful, sheaf" (see grip (v.)). Figurative use from mid-15c. Meaning "a handshake" (especially one of a secret society) is from 1785. Meaning "that by which anything is grasped" is from 1867. Meaning "stage hand" is from 1888, from their work shifting scenery.
