ǿpa

Old Norse

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wōpijaną. Cognate with Old English wēpan (whence English weep).

Verb

ǿpa

  1. to cry out, shout
    • 800s, Anonymous, Hávamǫ́l (‘the speeches of the High One’), stanza 138
      Við hlęifi mik sældut / né við hornigi
      nýsta’k niðr / nam’k upp rúnar
      ǿpandi nam / fell’k aptr þaðan.
      By loaf one gladdened me not, nor by any horn; I peered down, I took up the runes; screaming I took them; I fell back thence.

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Icelandic: æpa
  • Faroese: øpa, epa
  • Norwegian Bokmål: øpe
  • Old Swedish: ø̄pa
  • Old Danish: ø̄pæ
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