déguerpir
French
verb
Definitions
- (intransitive) to flee, to run off; to scram, skedaddle, scarper
- to bug
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French déguerpir inherited from Old French deguerpir (abandon) derived from Frankish *wurpijan (cast off, throw) derived from Proto-Germanic *werpaną (throw, cast, turn) derived from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (turn, bend, twist, wind).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*werb-
Gloss
turn, bend, twist, wind
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
風
Emoji
🙃
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- verber Latin
- verpa Latin
- werfen German
- ῥάπτω Ancient Greek
- *werb- Proto-Indo-European
- *werbʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *warpą Proto-Germanic
- *werpaną Proto-Germanic
- *wlappaną Proto-Germanic
- *wrappan- Proto-Germanic
- *wrappaną Proto-Germanic
- *wurpiz Proto-Germanic
- beweorpan Old English
- forweorpan Old English
- geweorpan Old English
- oferweorpan Old English
- ofweorpan Old English
- onweorpan Old English
- toweorpan Old English
- weorpan Old English
- wiþweorpan Old English
- ymbweorpan Old English
- verpa Old Norse
- muldvarp Danish
- deguerpir Old French
- *werpan Old High German
- werfan Old High German
- werfen Middle High German
- wërfen Middle High German
- déguerpir Middle French
- 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍀𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- וואַרפֿן Yiddish
- werpan Old Dutch
- werpan Old Saxon
- *werpijan Frankish
- *wurpijan Frankish
- werpa Old Frisian
- *awa-rapa Proto-Albanian