warp

warp · noun¹

1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*warpą“a warp”
2. Old English · inherited fromwearp
3. Middle English · inherited fromwarp
4. English todaywarp

From Middle English warp, werp, from Old English wearp, warp (“a warp, threads stretched lengthwise in a loom, twig, osier”), from Proto-Germanic *warpą (“a warp”). Cognate with Middle Dutch warp, Middle Low German warp, German werfen, Danish and Swedish varp.

warp · verb²

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*werb-“to bend, turn”
2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*werpaną“to throw, turn”
3. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*werpan
4. Old English · inherited fromweorpan“to throw”
5. Middle English · inherited fromwerpen
6. English todaywarp

From Middle English werpen, weorpen, worpen, from Old English weorpan (“to throw”), from Proto-West Germanic *werpan, from Proto-Germanic *werpaną (“to throw, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to bend, turn”). Cognate with Scots warp (“to throw, warp”), North Frisian werpen (“to throw”), Dutch werpen (“to throw, cast”), German werfen (“to throw, cast”), Icelandic verpa (“to throw”).

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