Etymology

lapper-milk

Today it means: curdled milk Full definition →

Middle English loper ← Old English hléapan
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromhléapan“to leap, run”
  2. Middle English · inherited fromloper“curdled”
  3. English todaylapper-milk

Related to lopper, from Middle English loper (“curdled”), probably connected with Old English hléapan (“to leap, run”). Compare rennet, runnet.

Words from the same roots

Old Englishhléapan all →

leaplapwing

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.