galp

Meaning

Verb

• to gape; yawn.

Origin

• From Middle English galpen, from Old English *galpian, *gealpian, suggested by derivative Old English gealpettan, from Proto-Germanic *galpōną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel-. Cognate with North Frisian galpe ("to shout"), Saterland Frisian galpje ("to call, cry out, resound"), Low German galpen ("to bellow, roar, howl, bark"), Dutch galpen ("to yell, shout, howl"), dialectal Swedish galpa, French japper ("to yelp, bark"). More at yelp.