vnhaspe

v.

'disclose' (Modern English )

Etymology

Formed in English on haspe (v.).

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

Attestation

This is the first attestation before the 17c.

Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus

Cl 688

Bibliography

MED unhaspen (v.) , OED unhasp (v.) , HTOED ; see further haspe (v.).