The story
- Old Norse · derived fromhlaupa“to leap, jump”
- Middle English · inherited fromlopen
- English todaylope
From Middle English lopen, from Old Norse hlaupa (“to leap, jump”). See leap. Cognate with German laufen (“walk, run”), Danish løbe (“run”), Dutch lopen (“walk, run”), Norwegian løpe (“run”). Doublet of leap.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.