Icelandic

Verb

hlaupa ‎(strong verb, third-person singular past indicative hljóp, third-person plural past indicative hlupu, supine hlaupið)

1. (intransitive) to run
2. (intransitive, of clothing) to shrink
3. (intransitive, of rivers) to flood
4. (intransitive) to congeal, to turn to jelly ^syn.

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

Related terms

• hleypa

Synonyms

• (congeal): ^def. storkna

Etymology 2

Noun

hlaupa

1. indefinite genitive plural of hlaup

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną, whence also Old English hlēapan ( > English leap), Old Frisian hlapa ( > West Frisian ljeppe), Old Saxon hlōpan ( > Low German lopen), Dutch lopen, Old High German hlaufan ( > German laufen). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *klAub-, *klAup- ‎(“to spring, stumble”).

Verb

hlaupa ‎(singular past indicative hljóp, plural past indicative hljópu, past participle hlaupinn)

1. to leap, jump, spring

Descendants

References

• hlaupa in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press