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weep
weep:
[OE]
Weep
goes back to prehistoric Germanic *
wōpjan
, which probably originated in imitation of the sound of wailing or lamentation. Most of its Germanic relatives have long since died out, but Icelandic still has
ǽpa
‘cry out, scream’.