galp

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English

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Etymology

From Middle English galpen, from Old English *galpian, *ġealpian (“to gape, yawn, gulp”), suggested by derivative Old English gealpettan (“to gulp down, eat greedily, devour”), from Proto-West Germanic *galpōn, from Proto-Germanic *galpōną (“to gape, yawn, sound out, yap”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to call, cry out, shout, scream”).

Cognate with North Frisian galpe (“to shout”), Saterland Frisian galpje (“to call, cry out, resound”), Low German galpen (“to bellow, roar, howl, bark”), Dutch galpen (“to yell, shout, howl”), dialectal Swedish galpa (“to screech, scream”), French japper (“to yelp, bark”). More at yelp.

Verb

galp (third-person singular simple present galps, present participle galping, simple past and past participle galped)

  1. (intransitive, archaic) To gape; yawn.

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Turkmen

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَلْب (qalb). Cognate with Azerbaijani qəlp

Adjective

galp (comparative ?, superlative iň galp)

  1. false, fake
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