Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo bind with adhesive tape. · To record, originally onto magnetic tape. · To understand, figure out.
Etymology tree Old English tæppa Middle English tape English tape From Middle English tape, tappe, from Old English tæppa, tæppe (“ribbon, tape”); further origin unclear. Probably akin to Old Frisian tapia (“to pull, rip, tear”), Middle Low German tappen, tāpen (“to grab, pull, rip, tear, snatch”), Middle High German zāfen, zāven (“to pull, tear”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentiontape,tappeenm
- Inherited-form mentiontæppa,tæppeang
- Cognate mentiontapiaofs
- Cognate mentiontappengml
- Cognate mentionzāfengmh
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