rope

rope · noun¹

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*h₁roypnós“strap, band, rope”
2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*raipaz
3. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*raip
4. Old English · inherited fromrāp“rope, cord, cable”
5. Middle English · inherited fromrop
6. English todayrope

From Middle English rop, rope, from Old English rāp (“rope, cord, cable”), from Proto-West Germanic *raip, from Proto-Germanic *raipaz, *raipą (“rope, cord, band, ringlet”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁roypnós (“strap, band, rope”), from *h₁reyp- (“to peel off, tear; border, edge, strip”). Cognates Cognate with Scots rape, raip (“rope”), Saterland Frisian Roop (“rope”), West Frisian reap (“rope, cord”), Dutch roop, reep (“rope, cord, ring, strip, bar”), German Low German Reep (“rope”), German Reif (“ring, hoop”), Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish rep (“rope”), Faroese and Norwegian Nynorsk reip (“rope”), Danish reb (“rope”), Icelandic reipi (“rope”), Albanian rrip (“belt, rope”).

rope · verb²

1. Middle English · inherited fromropen
2. English todayrope

From Middle English ropen, rope (“to form ropes”), from rop (“rope”); see above.

rope · noun³

1. Old English · inherited fromrop
2. Middle English · inherited fromrop“gut, intestine”
3. English todayrope

From Middle English rop (“gut, intestine”), from Old English rop, ropp; compare Middle Dutch rop, roppe (“fish guts”). The modern pronunciation results from phonological assimilation to Etymology 1.

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