Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To gaze in alarm; be terrified; stare.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAstonishment; awe; fear.
From Middle English glopen, probably from Old Norse glápa (“to stare vacantly”), from Proto-Germanic *glupaną (“to shine, gape”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰlub(ʰ)- (“to yawn, gape”). Cognate with Icelandic glápa (“to watch, stare at”), Dutch gluipen (“to sneak”), Low German glupen (“to look askance, leer”), Scots gloup (“chasm, cleft”). See also gloppen.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionglopenenm
- Derivation mentionglápanon · to stare vacantly
- Derivation mention*glupanągem-pro · to shine, gape
- Derivation mention*gʰlub(ʰ)-ine-pro · to yawn, gape
- Cognate mentionglápais · to watch, stare at
- Cognate mentiongluipennl · to sneak
- Cognate mentionglupennds · to look askance, leer
- Cognate mentiongloupsco · chasm, cleft
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