reup-

Also reub-. To snatch.

Derivatives include bereave, rob, usurp, and bankrupt.

I. Basic form *reub-. rip¹, from Flemish rippen, to rip, from Germanic *rupjan.

II. O-grade form *roup-.

1.

a. reave¹, from Old English rēafian, to plunder;

b. bereave, from Old English berēafian, to take away (be-, bi-, intensive prefix; see ambhi);

c. rover², from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German roven, to rob. a-c all from Germanic *(bi-)raubōn.

2.

a. rob, from Old French rober, to rob;

b. rubato, from Italian rubare, to rob. Both a and b from a Romance borrowing from Germanic *raubōn, to rob.

3. robe; garderobe, from Old French robe, robe (< “clothes taken as booty”), from Germanic *raubō, booty.

4. Suffixed form *roup-tro-. loot, from Sanskrit loptram, booty.

5. ruble, from Old Russian rubiti, to chop, hew, from Slavic *rubje/a-.

III. Zero-grade form *rup-.

1. usurp, from Latin ūsūrpāre (< *ūsu-rup-; ūsus, use, usage, from ūtī, to use), originally “to interrupt the orderly acquisition of something by the act of using,” whence to take into use, usurp.

2. Nasalized zero-grade form *ru-m-p-. rout¹, rupture; abrupt, bankrupt, corrupt, disrupt, erupt, interrupt, irrupt, rupicolous, from Latin rumpere, to break.

 

[In Pokorny 2. reu- 868.]

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