weep
English
/wiːp/
verb
Definitions
- To cry; shed tears.
- To lament; to complain.
- (medicine) To produce secretions.
- To flow in drops; to run in drops.
- To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
- (obsolete) To weep over; to bewail.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English wepen inherited from Old English wēpan (weep, mourn over, bewail, deplore, cry, complain) inherited from *wōpijan inherited from Proto-Germanic *wōpijaną (weep) derived from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂b- (complain, call, cry).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*weh₂b-
Gloss
complain, call, cry
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Action/Process
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- beweep English
- beweeper English
- foreweep English
- forweep English
- hole English
- outweep English
- unwept English
- weapon English
- weepable English
- weepathon English
- weepen English
- weeper English
- weepest English
- weepeth English
- weepfest English
- weepful English
- weephole English
- weepie English
- weepily English
- weepiness English
- weepy English
- wept English
- *weh₂b- Proto-Indo-European
- *wōpijaną Proto-Germanic
- bewepan Old English
- wepan Old English
- wēpan Old English
- wǣpn Old English
- bewepen Middle English
- forwepen Middle English
- wepen Middle English
- œpa Old Norse
- æpa Icelandic
- 𐍅𐍉𐍀𐌾𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *wōpijan gmw-pro
- wuopan Old Dutch
- øpa Old Swedish
- *gáwbati Proto-Iranian