gaber
Old French
verb
Definitions
- to joke; to jest
- to dupe, to fool
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Norse gabba (mock, make sport of).
Origin
Old Norse
gabba
Gloss
mock, make sport of
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bejape English
- jape English
- japer English
- japery English
- japester English
- japish English
- plaisant French
- plaisanter French
- plaisanterie French
- *ghabh- Proto-Indo-European
- *gabbaną Proto-Germanic
- gabban Old English
- gabben Middle English
- japen Middle English
- gabb Old Norse
- gabba Old Norse
- gabba Icelandic
- gabar Old Portuguese
- gabar Old Occitan