hlaupa

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hlaupa, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną, from Proto-Indo-European *klewb- (to spring, stumble).

Verb

hlaupa (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative hljóp, third-person plural past indicative hlupu, supine hlaupið)

  1. (intransitive) to run
  2. (intransitive) to leap, jump, spring
  3. (intransitive, of clothing) to shrink
  4. (intransitive, of rivers) to flood
  5. (intransitive) to congeal, to turn to jelly
Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

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Etymology 2

Noun

hlaupa

  1. indefinite genitive plural of hlaup

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną, whence also Old English hlēapan ( > English leap), Old Frisian hlapa ( > West Frisian ljeppe), Old Saxon hlōpan ( > Low German lopen), Dutch lopen, Old High German hlaufan ( > German laufen). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *klewb- (to spring, stumble).

Verb

hlaupa (singular past indicative hljóp, plural past indicative hljópu, past participle hlaupinn)

  1. to leap, jump, spring

Conjugation

Descendants

References

  • hlaupa”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press