Wallop Definition
Origin of Wallop
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From Middle English wallopen (“gallop"), from Anglo-Norman, from Old Northern French walop (“gallop (noun)") and waloper (“to gallop (verb)") (compare Old French galoper, whence modern French galoper), from Frankish *wala hlaupan (“to run well") from *wala (“well") + *hlaupan (“to run"), from Proto-Germanic *hlaupanÄ… (“to run, leap, spring"), from Proto-Indo-European *klaup-, *klaub- (“to spring, stumble"). Possibly also derived from a deverbal of Frankish *walhlaup (“battle run") from *wal (“battlefield") from a Proto-Germanic word meaning "dead, victim, slain" from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“death in battle, killed in battle") + *hlaup (“course, track") from *hlaupan (“to run"). Compare the doublet gallop.
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Middle English walopen to gallop from Old North French waloper wel-1 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From the acronym: write [to] all operators
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