Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron. · An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth. · The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered. · A place of rearing and fostering.
To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish. · To rest or recline in someone's lap, or as in a lap.
From Middle English lappe, from Old English læppa (“skirt or flap of a garment”), from Proto-West Germanic *lappō, from Proto-Germanic *lappô (“cloth; rag”), of uncertain origin, possibly Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely”). Cognate with Dutch lap (“cloth; rag”), German Lappen (“cloth; lobe; flap”), Icelandic leppur (“rag; patch”).
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- Inherited-form mentionlappeenm
- Inherited-form mentionlæppaang · skirt or flap of a garment
- Inherited-form mention*lappōgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*lappôgem-pro · cloth; rag
- Derivation mention*leb-ine-pro · to hang loosely
- Cognate mentionlapnl · cloth; rag
- Cognate mentionLappende · cloth; lobe; flap
- Cognate mentionleppuris · rag; patch
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