v.
'disclose' (Modern English )
PGmc Ancestor
*xasp-
Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)
cp. hespa (n.) ‘wisp or skein of wool; hasp, fastening’
(ONP cp. hespa (sb.))
Other Scandinavian Reflexes
OE Cognate
cp. hæpsian 'to fasten'
Phonological and morphological markers
[
absence of metathesis
] (possibly diagnostic)Summary category
CCC2c
This is the first attestation before the 17c.
Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus
Cl 688