Translation
to crawl, to creep
Word origin
From German rampen and the wider Germanic family behind English ramp and romp, all of it going back to a sense of clambering or rearing up. Zamenhof took the root for movement close to the ground, which is where the Esperanto word has stayed.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Root
- rampen
- English cognates
- ramp, rampant
Examples
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The baby crawled across the floor to its mother.
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A snake was creeping through the tall grass.
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After the accident he could only crawl.
is movement with the body against the ground: babies, snakes, insects, a soldier under wire. It is not grimpi, which is climbing with hands and feet on something upright. Plants take too - is a creeper - and so does the figurative English sense of a slow, humiliating advance.
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Start your free weekThis word is part of lesson 39.