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Albanian
Etymology
Ultimately onomatopoeic, compare llup, lëpij, llufit, llapë, as well as Ancient Greek λάπτω (láptō), Old Armenian լափեմ (lapʻem), Bulgarian ла́пам (lápam).
Sense 4 may have arisen due to conflation with llaf (“chat, gossip”), compare the alternation llafazan, llapazan.
Pronunciation
Verb
llap (aorist llapa, participle llapur)
- to lap, lap up (drink or eat quickly with the tongue)
- to lick (of animals)
- to gobble, scoff (eat quickly, greedily)
- Synonym: llup
- to babble, chatter (speak irresponsibly)
- Synonym: llomotit
References
- FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe , 1980, page 1035b
- Demiraj, Bardhyl (1997) “lëpí/j”, in Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz ] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7) (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 242
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “llap”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 255b
- Leotti, Angelo (1916) L'albanese parlato (in Italian), Milan: U. Hoepli, page 114
- Weigand, Gustav (1914) “llap”, in Albanesisch–deutsches und deutsch–albanesisches Wörterbuch (in German), Leipzig: J. A. Barth, page 49b
- Kristoforidhi, Kostandin (1904) “λαπ”, in Λεξικὸν τῆς Ἀλβανικῆς γλώσσης (in Greek), Athens, page 192
- Meyer, G. (1891) “ľap”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 237
- Rossi, F. (1875) “làpp”, in Vocabolario della lingua epirotica–italiana (in Italian), page 722b
- Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “lap”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 212