grateful

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 336 words | Copyright

grateful pleasing; thankful. XVI. f. †grate (XVI) — L. grātus (in the same senses), pp. formation corr. to Skr. gūrtá- welcome, agreeable, rel. to words of the Indo-Iran. and Baltic groups denoting ‘praise’; the unusual formation with -FUL1 may have been suggested by It. gradevole pleasing.

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