Icelandic

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Verb

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

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

Conjugation

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Noun

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hrapa

  1. indefinite genitive plural of hrap

References

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