Noun: weep
Sample Sentences
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Sometimes you just have to have a good weep.
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He's coming, too, and we both want to mingle our weeps over the wine-cup[.] [1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York: Doubleday & McClure, published 1899, page v. 62:]
Nouns inflected like weep
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English wepen, from Old English wēpan (“to weep, complain, bewail, mourn over, deplore”), from Proto-West Germanic *wōpijan, from Proto-Germanic *wōpijaną (“to weep”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂b- (“to call, cry, complain”).
2. Cognate with Scots weep (“to weep”), Saterland Frisian wapia (“to cry, complain”), Icelandic æpa (“to yell, shout”),
3. Proto-Slavic *vъpiti (“to weep”). See: Middle English Nouns '
wepen', Old English Nouns '
wēpan', Icelandic Nouns '
æpa'.