Meanings
present singular third person roops · participle present rooping · participle past rooped · past rooped · alternative Scotland roup
- dialectaltransitiveusuallywith upTo make hoarse.
I am rooped up.
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Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*ker-
- Proto-Germanic*hrōpaną“to call, shout, cry”
- Old Englishhrōpan“to shout, proclaim; cry out, scream, howl”
- Middle Englishropen“to cry out”
- Englishroop
From Middle English ropen (“to cry out”), from Old English hrōpan (“to shout, proclaim; cry out, scream, howl”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōpaną (“to call, shout, cry”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *kor- (“to caw, crow”). Cognate with Scots roup (“to shout, roar, cry out loudly”), Saterland Frisian roupe (“to call, shout”), Dutch roepen (“to shout, cry out”), German rufen (“to call, cry, shout”), Swedish ropa (“to call, cry out, shout”), Icelandic hrópa (“to cry out”).
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roop. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/roop
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