gapa

From gap- + -a.

gapa (intransitive)

1. to be full (of any container)

• gapeta (“to fill, cause to be full”)

From Old Norse gapa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaːpa/

  Rhymes: -aːpa

gapa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative gapti, supine gapað)

1. to gape

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Compare Cahuilla kúpvel

gapa

1. bed

• gapte (simple past)
• gapt (past participle)

gapa

1. inflection of gape:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

From Proto-Germanic *gapōną (“to gaze, observe”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂- (“to gape, be wide open”).[1]

gapa (singular past indicative gapti, plural past indicative gǫptu, past participle gapat)

1. to gape, open the mouth wide

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.pa/

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• Rhymes: -apa
• Syllabification: ga‧pa

gapa f

1. booby (person)
2. (Greater Poland, Kujawy, Poznań) crow (Corvus cornix, occasionally other birds of the Corvus genus)

   Synonym: wrona

• gapa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• gapa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

ga (“pry open”) +‎ -pa

gapa

1. wedge

• Firchow, Irwin; Firchow, Jacqueline; Akoitai, David (1973) Vocabulary of Rotokas - Pidgin - English‎, Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics, page 18

gapa

1. canvas

gap +‎ -a

gapa (present gapar, preterite gapade, supine gapat, imperative gapa)

1. to open one's mouth; keep one's mouth open
2. to talk very loudly or shout

• gaphals (“someone who screams and shouts”)