hrapa

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse hrapa, from Proto-Germanic *hrapaną, *hrappa- (fast), from Proto-Indo-European *krb(ʰ)- (quickly).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈr̥aːpa/
    Rhymes: -aːpa

Verb

hrapa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative hrapaði, supine hrapað)

  1. to fall, to plunge
  2. (of aircraft) to crash

Conjugation

Noun

hrapa

  1. indefinite genitive plural of hrap

References

  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “hrappa-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 243
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