Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Of a married or engaged person, to run away from home with a paramour. · Of an unmarried person, to run away secretly for the purpose of getting married with one's intended spouse; to marry in a quick or private fashion, especially without a public period of engagement. · Of an unmarried person, to run away secretly from home in order to get married without parental or guardian consent. · To escape from one's caretaker.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder. Proto-Indo-European *h₂unt- Proto-Germanic *unþa- Proto-West Germanic *unþa- Proto-Indo-European *klewb-der. Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną Proto-West Germanic *hlaupan Proto-West Germanic *andihlaupanbor. Anglo-Norman aloperder. English elope From Anglo-Norman aloper (“to abduct, run away”), itself borrowed from Proto-West Germanic *andihlaupan (“to run away”). Equivalent to and- + lope as well as and- + leap (these being doublets). First attested in 1593. More at lope.
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- Derivation mention*unþahlaupangmw-pro
- Word-formation componentand-en
- Word-formation componentlopeen
- Word-formation componentleapen
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