Where does “crape” come from?
crape (Old French) comes from Old French graper, from Old French grap, from Frankish krappō, from Proto-Indo-European grep-, from Proto-Indo-European gremb-, from Proto-Indo-European ger- — to turn, bend, twist, wind; to tie, bind...
crape (Old French): hook; cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of...
Definitions
- hook; cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of...
Ancestry of “crape”, step by step
crape traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.