envelop

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• ĕn-vĕlʹəp
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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”) 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”), 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.

45 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Azerbaijani: çulğalamaq — to surround or enclose
• Azerbaijani: qaplamaq — to surround or enclose
• Bulgarian: обвивам (obvivam) — to surround or enclose
• Bulgarian: обгръщам (obgrǎštam) — to surround or enclose
• Chinese Mandarin: 包裹 (bāoguǒ) — to surround or enclose
• Chinese Mandarin: 包围 (bāowéi) — to surround or enclose
• Chinese Mandarin: 籠罩 /笼罩 (lǒngzhào) — to surround or enclose
• Dutch: omvatten — to surround or enclose
• Dutch: omhullen — to surround or enclose
• Finnish: sulkea — to surround or enclose
• French: envelopper — to surround or enclose
• German: einhüllen — to surround or enclose
• German: umhüllen — to surround or enclose
• Greek: τυλίγω (tylígo) — to surround or enclose
• Greek: περιβάλλω (perivállo) — to surround or enclose
• Greek: περιτυλίγω (peritylígo) — to surround or enclose
• Greek: περικυκλώνω (perikyklóno) — to surround or enclose
• Hungarian: körbevesz — to surround or enclose
• Hungarian: körülvesz — to surround or enclose
• Hungarian: bekerít — to surround or enclose
• Hungarian: beburkol — to surround or enclose
• Hungarian: beborít — to surround or enclose
• Italian: circondare — to surround or enclose
• Italian: avviluppare — to surround or enclose
• Japanese: 立ち込める (tachikomeru) — to surround or enclose
• Malayalam: പൊതിയുക (potiyuka) — to surround or enclose
• Māori: kōpaki — to surround or enclose
• Eastern Mari: аваш (avaš) — to surround or enclose
• Norwegian Bokmål: omringe — to surround or enclose
• Norwegian Bokmål: omgi — to surround or enclose
• Norwegian Bokmål: innelukke — to surround or enclose
• Portuguese: envolver — to surround or enclose
• Russian: окружа́ть (okružátʹ) — to surround or enclose
• Russian: обволакивать (obvolakivatʹ) — to surround or enclose
• Spanish: envolver — to surround or enclose
• Thai: ห่อหุ้ม — to surround or enclose
• Ottoman Turkish: صارمق (sarmak) — to surround or enclose
• Ukrainian: огорта́ти (ohortáty) — to surround or enclose
• Ukrainian: огорну́ти (ohornúty) — to surround or enclose
• Ukrainian: обгорта́ти (obhortáty) — to surround or enclose
• Ukrainian: обгорну́ти (obhornúty) — to surround or enclose
• Ukrainian: оповива́ти (opovyváty) — to surround or enclose
• Ukrainian: опови́ти (opovýty) — to surround or enclose
• Ukrainian: обволіка́ти (obvolikáty) — to surround or enclose
• Ukrainian: обволокти́ (obvoloktý) — to surround or enclose