Where does “laps” come from?
laps (Middle French) comes from Latin lāpsus, from Latin lābor, from Old Latin labos, from Romanian labă, from Hungarian láb, from Proto-Uralic luwe, from Proto-Iranian *Hrawpācáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hrawpāćás.
Ancestry of “laps”, step by step
Words derived from “laps”