From Middle Dutch slurpen, slorpen, from Old Dutch, from Proto-Germanic *slarpaną ("to sip, slurp"), from Proto-Indo-European *srebʰ-, *srobʰ-. Cognate with West Frisian slurvje ("to slurp"), German schlürfen ("to sip, slurp"), Swedish slurpa ("to slurp"), Middle High German sürfeln, sürpfeln, Latin sorbeō ("to suck up, imbibe, absorb").
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