Icelandic edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse hrapa, from Proto-Germanic *hrapaną, *hrappa- (fast), from Proto-Indo-European *krb(ʰ)- (quickly).[1]

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

hrapa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative hrapaði, supine hrapað)

  1. to fall, to plunge
  2. (of aircraft) to crash

Conjugation edit

Related terms edit

Noun edit

hrapa

  1. indefinite genitive plural of hrap

References edit

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “hrappa-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 243