Old English · noun

rap

Normalised rāp

Part of speech: noun, masculine
Declension: strong a-stem
IPA: /rɑːp/
Syllables: rɑːp (1 syllable)
Modern English: rope roap roape

Meaning

rope

Declension

Declension of rap
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rāp	rāpas
Accusative	rāp	rāpas
Genitive	rāpes	rāpa
Dative	rāpe	rāpum

All forms (6)

rāp
rāpas
rāpes
rāpa
rāpe
rāpum

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *raip, from Proto-Germanic *raipaz, *raipą (“rope, cord, band, ringlet”), from Proto-Indo-European *roypnós (“strap, band, rope”). Compare Old Frisian rāp (West Frisian reap), Old Dutch reip, rēp (Dutch reep), Old High German reif (German Reif).

Descendants

roap, roape, rope

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rap · CC BY-SA 4.0 licence · Attribution