Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To eat or drink noisily. · To make a loud sucking noise.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA loud sucking noise, especially one made in eating or drinking. · A mouthful of liquid sucked up.
From Middle Dutch slurpen, slorpen (“to sip, slurp”), from Old Dutch *slurpan, from Proto-West Germanic *slurp- (“to sip, slurp”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *srebʰ-, *srobʰ- (“to sip, slurp, gulp”). Cognate with West Frisian sloarpe, sloarpje, slurvje (“to slurp”), German schlürfen (“to sip, slurp”), Swedish slurpa (“to slurp”), Norwegian slurpe (“to slurp”). Compare also Saterland Frisian slubberje (“to slurp”), German Low German slubbern (“to slurp”), Middle High German sluppern (“to slurp”), Swedish, Norwegian, and Icelandic slupra (“to slurp”), Middle High German sürfeln, sürpfeln (“to sip, slurp”), Latin sorbeō (“to suck up, imbibe, absorb”). Often treated as onomatopoeic in modern writing.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Borrowed-form mentionslurpendum
- Derivation mention*slurpanodt
- Derivation mention*slurp-gmw-pro · to sip, slurp
- Derivation mention*srebʰ-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionsloarpefy
- Cognate mentionschlürfende · to sip, slurp
- Cognate mentionslurpasv · to slurp
- Cognate mentionslurpeno · to slurp
- Cognate mentionslubberjestq · to slurp
- Cognate mentionslupperngmh · to slurp
- Non-cognate comparisonsürfelngmh
- Non-cognate comparisonsorbeōla
Inspect preserved source fields
Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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