Etymology Explorer › Old English

Where does “geap” come from?

geap (Old English) comes from Proto-Germanic gaupaz, from Proto-Indo-European gheub-.

geap (Old English): crooked, bent, curved; symbolically crooked;...

Definitions

  1. crooked, bent, curved; symbolically crooked;...

Ancestry of “geap”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicgaupazcrooked, bent apart
2Proto-Indo-Europeangheub-—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European gheub- →