Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To make a whoop. · To shout, to yell. · To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough. · To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.
A loud, eager cry, usually of joy. · A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough. · A bump on a racetrack.
From Middle English whopen, whowpen, howpen, houpen (“to whoop, cry out”), partially from Old French houper, hopper, houpper (“to shout”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwōpan, from Proto-Germanic *hwōpaną (“to boast, threaten”) (compare Gothic 𐍈𐍉𐍀𐌰𐌽 (ƕōpan, “to boast”), Old English hwōpan (“to threaten”)); and partially from Middle English wop (“weeping, lamentation”), from Old English wōp (“cry, outcry, shrieking, weeping, lamentation”), from Proto-West Germanic *wōp, from Proto-Germanic *wōpaz (“shout, cry, wail”) (compare Old Norse ópa (“to cry, scream, shout”), Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐍀𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wōpjan, “to cry out”)).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionwhopenenm
- Derivation mentionhouperfro
- Inherited-form mention*hwōpangmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*hwōpanągem-pro · to boast, threaten
- Cognate mention𐍈𐍉𐍀𐌰𐌽got · to boast
- Cognate mentionhwōpanang · to threaten
- Inherited-form mentionwopenm · weeping, lamentation
- Inherited-form mentionwōpang · cry, outcry, shrieking, weeping, lamentation
- Inherited-form mention*wōpgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*wōpazgem-pro · shout, cry, wail
- Cognate mentionópanon · to cry, scream, shout
- Cognate mention𐍅𐍉𐍀𐌾𐌰𐌽got · to cry out
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