Icelandic

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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

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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Etymology 2

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Noun

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hrapa

  1. indefinite genitive plural of hrap

References

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