wallop

wallop · noun, verb¹

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*wel-“death in battle, killed in battle”
2. Proto-Germanic · derived from[Term?]“dead, victim, slain”
3. Frankish · derived from*walhlaup“battle run”
4. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*klaub-“to spring, stumble”
5. Proto-Germanic · derived from*hlaupaną“to run, leap, spring”
6. Frankish · derived from*wala hlaupan“to run well”
7. Old Northern French · derived fromwalop“gallop”
8. Anglo-Norman · derived from[Term?]
9. Middle English · inherited fromwallopen“gallop”
10. English todaywallop

From Middle English wallopen (“gallop”), from Anglo-Norman [Term?], from Old Northern French walop (“gallop”, noun) and waloper (“to gallop”, verb) (compare Old French galoper, whence modern French galoper), from Frankish *wala hlaupan (“to run well”) from *wala (“well”) + *hlaupan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną (“to run, leap, spring”), from Proto-Indo-European *klaub- (“to spring, stumble”). Possibly also derived from a deverbal of Frankish *walhlaup (“battle run”) from *wal (“battlefield”) from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (“dead, victim, slain”) from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“death in battle, killed in battle”) + *hlaup (“course, track”) from *hlaupan (“to run”). Compare the doublet gallop.

wallop · verb²

Clipping of write to all operators.

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