ræpan - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

From Proto-Germanic *raipijaną, *raipōną (“to tie, bind”), from Proto-Germanic *raipaz (“string, strap, band, rope”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyp- (“to peel off, rip, tear; strip, strap”). Compare Old High German bireifen (“to wrap up, bind”), Old Norse reipa (“to fasten with rope”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈræː.pɑn/

rǣpan

1. to bind with rope, make captive

• ġerǣpan
• rǣpling

• rāp

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “rǣpan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.