envelop

== English == === Alternative forms === invelop, invelope (obsolete) envelope (archaic) === Etymology === From Middle English envolupen, from Old French anveloper, envoluper (modern French envelopper), from en- + voloper, vloper (“to wrap, wrap up”) (compare Italian -viluppare; Old Italian alternative form goluppare (“to wrap”)) from Vulgar Latin *vuloppare (“to wrap”), from Proto-Germanic *wlappaną, *wrappaną (“to wrap, roll up, turn, wind”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to turn, bend”) [1]. Akin to Middle English wlappen (“to wrap, fold”) (Modern English lap (“to wrap, involve, fold”)), Middle English wrappen (“to wrap”), Middle Dutch lappen (“to wrap up, embrace”), Danish dialectal vravle (“to wind, twist”), Middle Low German wrempen (“to wrinkle, distort”), Old English wearp (“warp”). Doublet of enwrap. === Pronunciation === enPR: ĕn-vĕlʹəp, IPA(key): /ɛnˈvɛləp/ (Indic) IPA(key): /ˈɛnvəlɵp/ === Verb === envelop (third-person singular simple present envelops, present participle enveloping, simple past and past participle enveloped) (transitive) To surround, enclose or enfold. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === envelope == Dutch == === Alternative forms === enveloppe === Etymology === Borrowed from French enveloppe. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˌɑn.vəˈlɔp/, /ˌɛn.vəˈlɔp/ Hyphenation: en‧ve‧lop Rhymes: -ɔp === Noun === envelop f (plural enveloppen, diminutive envelopje n) an envelope, closing paper wrapper as used for mailing ==== Synonyms ==== briefomslag ==== Descendants ==== === Anagrams === leven op, opleven