Where does “wallopen” come from?

wallopen (Middle English) comes from Old French waloper — to gallop.

wallopen (Middle English): gallop

Definitions

  1. gallop

Ancestry of “wallopen”, step by step

wallopen traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old French waloper

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchwaloperto gallop

via Old Northern French walop

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Northern Frenchwalopgallop

Words derived from “wallopen”

Every word from Old French waloper →