Etymology

berisp

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Today it means: To censure; reprove. Full definition →

Middle Dutch berispen ← Old Dutch *repsōn ← Proto-West Germanic *rafsijan
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The story

  1. Proto-West Germanic · derived from*rafsijan“to blame”
  2. Old Dutch · derived from*repsōn“to blame, accuse”
  3. Middle Dutch · borrowed fromberispen
  4. English todayberisp

From Middle Dutch berispen, berespen, berepsen, from be- + *repsen, from Old Dutch *repsōn (“to blame, accuse”), from Proto-West Germanic *rafsijan (“to blame”)).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.