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envelopper.

to wrap someone or something, to cover

10 characters4 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

verb/ɑ̃.vlɔ.pe/
  1. to wrap someone or something, to cover

  2. to envelop

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle French enveloper, from Old French envoloper, anveloper, from en- + voluper (“to wrap, wrap up”) (compare Italian -viluppare; Old Italian alternative form goluppare (“to wrap”)) from Vulgar Latin *vlopp- (“to wrap”), from Proto-Germanic *wrappaną, *wlappaną (“to wrap, roll up, turn, wind”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to turn, bend”) http://www.wordnik.com/words/envelop. Akin to Middle English wlappen (“to wrap, fold”) (Modern English lap (“to wrap, involve, fold”)), Middle English wrappen (“to wrap”), dialectal Danish vravle (“to wind, twist”), Middle Low German wrempen (“to wrinkle, distort”), Old English wearp (“warp”). More at in, wrap.

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