Where does “gallop” come from?
Gallop comes from Middle English galopen, from Old French galoper, from Frankish wala hlaupan, meaning to leap well, from Frankish wala and Proto-Indo-European klaup-, to leap.
gallop (English): The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride...
Definitions
- The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride...
Ancestry of “gallop”, step by step
gallop traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French galoper
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | galoper | to gallop |
| 2 | German | galoppieren | to gallop |
| 3 | German | -ieren | Verb suffix: it and its inflected forms are found... |
| 4 | French | -er | Forms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs |
| 5 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 6 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 7 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 8 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 13 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via Middle English galopen
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | galopen | to gallop |