Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To walk lamely, as if favoring one leg. · To travel with a malfunctioning system of propulsion. · To move or proceed irregularly. · To call, particularly in an unraised pot pre-flop.
An irregular, jerky or awkward gait. · A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.
From Middle English limpen (“to fall short”), from Old English limpan, from Proto-West Germanic *limpan, from Proto-Germanic *limpaną (“to hang down”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lemb-, *(s)lembʰ- (“to hang loosely, hang limply”). Cognate with Low German lumpen (“to limp”), Middle High German limpfen (“to hobble, limp”), dialectal German lampen (“to hang down loosely”), Icelandic limpa (“limpness, weakness”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionlimpenenm · to fall short
- Inherited-form mentionlimpanang
- Inherited-form mention*limpangmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*limpanągem-pro · to hang down
- Inherited-form mention*(s)lemb-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionlumpennds
- Cognate mentionlimpfengmh · to hobble, limp
- Cognate mentionlampende
- Cognate mentionlimpais
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