Etymology

weeping

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Today it means: Action of the verb to weep. Full definition →

Middle English wepynge ← Old English wēpn ← Proto-West Germanic *wāpn
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic*wēpną
  2. Proto-West Germanic*wāpn
  3. Old Englishwēpn
  4. Middle Englishwepen
  5. Middle Englishwepynge
  6. English todayweeping

Inherited from Middle English wepynge.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.