v. (st. or wk.)
Gaw past warp; Pe infin. warpe; Cl past sg. warp, werp, past pl. warpen; Pat past 3 sg. warpped; Erk past 3 sg. warpyd; WA pp. *warpyd
‘to cast; say, speak, utter; drive, put' (Modern English warp)
PGmc Ancestor
*werpan- or *warpan-
Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)
varpa ‘to throw, cast’
(ONP varpa (2) (vb.))
Other Scandinavian Reflexes
Far varpa, Icel varpa, Norw varpa
OE Cognate
weorpan 'to throw, cast'
Phonological and morphological markers
Summary category
CC1c
Apart from the AB tradition, MED records no instances of <warp-> in the pres. stem before the late 14c. other than once in a1325(c1250) Gen&Ex (Corp-C 444); demonstrably wk. preterites first occur c. 1400 (inc. Pat 356). These forms are predominantly N and E, as are the majority of examples of werp-, warp- in MED from the later ME period in all forms/conjugations.
Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus
Gaw 224, 1423, 2025 etc.; Pe 879; Cl 152, 213, 444; Pat 356; Erk 321; WA *725*
On the sense at Cl 284, see Anderson 283-4n. TPD introduce warpyd by emendation at WA 725*.