Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To behave violently; to rage. · To swindle or rob violently. · To search a prisoner or a prisoner's cell. · To spring; to leap; to bound, rear, or prance; to move swiftly or violently.
An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline. · An interchange, a road that connects a freeway to a surface street or another freeway. · A structure with an inclined surface made for stunts, as for jumping motorcycles or other vehicles. · A mobile staircase that is attached to the doors of an aircraft at an airport.
From French rampe, from Middle French rampe, deverbal of ramper, from Old French ramper (“to crawl, climb, scale up”), from Frankish *hrampōn (“to contract oneself, wrinkle, rumple, crumple, curve”), from Proto-Germanic *hrimpaną (“to shrivel, shrink”). Cognate with German Rampf (“retraction, curvature, shrinkage, spasm”). Doublet of romp. Akin also to Old English ġehrimpan (“to wrinkle, rimple, rumple”), Old High German rimpfan (German rümpfen (“to wrinkle up”)). Compare Danish rimpe (“to fold" (archaic), "to baste”), Icelandic rimpa. More at rimple.
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- Borrowed-form mentionrampefr
- Derivation mentionrampefrm
- Derivation mentionramperfro · to crawl, climb, scale up
- Derivation mention*hrimpanągem-pro · to shrivel, shrink
- Cognate mentionRampfde · retraction, curvature, shrinkage, spasm
- Doublet mentionrompen
- Cognate mentionrimpfangoh
- Cognate mentionrimpeda · to fold" (archaic), "to baste
- Cognate mentionrimpais
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