krypa

• krjupa, krjupe, krype

From Old Norse krjúpa, from Proto-Germanic *kreupaną. Akin to English creep.

• IPA^(key): /²kryː.pɑ/

krypa (present tense kryp, past tense kraup, supine krope, past participle kropen, present participle krypande, imperative kryp)

1. to creep, crawl

• “krypa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Norse krjúpa, from Proto-Germanic *kreupaną.

krȳpa

1. to creep, crawl

• Swedish: krypa

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• IPA^(key): /ˈkrɘ.pa/
• Rhymes: -ɘpa
• Syllabification: kry‧pa

krypa f

1. (colloquial, derogatory) tub (run-down boat)
2. barge (flat-bottomed vessel used to transport sand, gravel, etc.)
3. dugout (canoe made from a hollowed-out log)

• krypa in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• krypa in PWN's encyclopedia

From Old Swedish krȳpa, from Old Norse krjúpa, from Proto-Germanic *kreupaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“turn, wind”). Compare Norwegian krype, Danish krybe, Icelandic krjúpa, English creep, Dutch kruipen.

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krypa (present kryper, preterite kröp, supine krupit, imperative kryp)

1. to crawl, to creep
2. to have an (uncomfortable) creeping sensation (for example when having restless legs)

   Det kröp i benen

   My legs were "creeping"

3. to creep; (of plants), to grow across a surface rather than upwards.
4. to creep; (of non-living things, like vehicles, fog, and the like), move slowly and gradually in a particular direction
5. to creep, to change gradually in a particular direction.

Creep in the sense of move slowly and furtively is smyga. Creep is sometimes mistranslated as krypa in that sense, which means to crawl on the ground when of people.

• krypa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• krypa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• krypa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• krypa in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)