rrip

Albanian

Alternative forms

• rryp

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian *wripa. Compare Ancient Greek ῥάπτω (rháptō, “to sew together, to stitch”), Lithuanian verpti (“to spin”). Alternatively from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian *reipa, to be connected with Proto-Germanic *raipaz (“rope”), in (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old High German reif (“rope, cord”), Middle Low German rēp (“sling, rope”), Old Norse reipa (“to fasten with a rope”), and ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *roypnós.

Noun

rrip m

1. belt

Derived terms

• rrypinë
• rripkë