Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗An opening in anything, made by breaking or parting. · An opening allowing passage or entrance. · An opening that implies a breach or defect. · A vacant space or time.
To notch, as a sword or knife. · To make an opening in; to breach. · To check the size of a gap. · To surpass (someone or something) by a considerable margin.
Inherited from Middle English gap /gappe, from Old Norse gap (“an empty space, gap, chasm”), from gapa (“to gape, scream”), from Proto-Germanic *gapōną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂- (“to open wide, gape”). Related to Danish gab (“an expanse, space, gap”), Old English ġeap (“open space, expanse”). Doublet of gape.
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