Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise. · To stare in wonder. · To open wide; to display a gap. · To open the passage to the vomeronasal organ, analogous to the flehming in other animals.
An act of gaping; a yawn. · A large opening. · A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping. · The width of an opening.
From Middle English gapen, from Old Norse gapa (“to gape”) (compare Swedish gapa, Danish gabe), from Proto-Germanic *gapōną (descendants Middle English geapen, Dutch gapen, German gaffen), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰеh₂b-. Cognates include Russian зяпа (zjapa). Doublet of gap.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
This page abbreviates 2 auxiliary source items. The etymology narrative is not shortened. Omission counts are available in the audit fields below; consult the original for complete auxiliary material.
Inspect preserved source fields
Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
{
"templates": [
{
"name": "der",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "gapen"
},
"expansion": "Middle English gapen"
},
{
"name": "der",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "non",
"3": "gapa",
"4": "",
"5": "to gape"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse gapa (“to gape”)"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "gapa"
},
"expansion": "Swedish gapa"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "gabe"
},
"expansion": "Danish gabe"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "gem-pro",
"2": "*gapōną"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *gapōną"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "geapen"
},
"expansion": "Middle English geapen"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "gapen"
},
"expansion": "Dutch gapen"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "gaffen"
},
"expansion": "German gaffen"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "ine-pro",
"2": "*ǵʰeh₂-",
"3": "*ǵʰеh₂b-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰеh₂b-"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "ru",
"2": "зяпа"
},
"expansion": "Russian зяпа (zjapa)"
},
{
"name": "doublet",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gap"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of gap"
}
],
"links": [
[
"gapen",
"gapen#Middle_English"
],
[
"gapa",
"gapa#Old_Norse"
],
[
"gapa",
"gapa#Swedish"
],
[
"gabe",
"gabe#Danish"
],
[
"*gapōną",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/gapōną"
],
[
"geapen",
"geapen#Middle_English"
],
[
"gapen",
"gapen#Dutch"
],
[
"gaffen",
"gaffen#German"
],
[
"*ǵʰеh₂b-",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/ǵʰeh₂-"
],
[
"зяпа",
"зяпа#Russian"
],
[
"gap",
"gap#English"
]
],
"references": [],
"descendants": [],
"lexical": [
{
"pos": "verb",
"glosses": [
"To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise.",
"To stare in wonder.",
"To open wide; to display a gap.",
"To open the passage to the vomeronasal organ, analogous to the flehming in other animals."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
],
"recordId": "221560d48107a3e34f5544c39f8e372e9ed717336bcb5a16958b603c1d7c10e3",
"rawRecordSha256": "e981db160ff1f6b6f01aceca8bc696f73868a71334fec5555e2c98dc3e235023",
"sourceRecordOrdinal": 230097
},
{
"pos": "noun",
"glosses": [
"An act of gaping; a yawn.",
"A large opening.",
"A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping.",
"The width of an opening."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncommon",
"uncountable"
],
"recordId": "bfedb69e498f8babfbda8a83b0b6b7d7dbc90552a2db86f288557e70d6740d9d",
"rawRecordSha256": "afc4ebb61674e30804178a7b08b7aa32631e0f2d4e050d7b7ed868383457d756",
"sourceRecordOrdinal": 230098
}
],
"omittedAuxiliaryFields": {
"templates": 0,
"links": 0,
"references": 0,
"descendants": 0,
"lexicalRecords": 0,
"lexicalSenses": 2,
"glosses": 0
}
}