LAP

Wild Word Friday!

I’ve had an incredibly busy and productive week, but no time to write a blog post for Wild Word Friday, so this is a re-run. I hope it makes you smile!

LAP is a very ancient word that can be traced all the way back to the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) language (think 5 thousand years ago), which is the ancient mother form of almost all modern European languages and many Eastern Languages.  Today an estimated three billion people speak languages that descended from the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) language.  The root PIE word for LAP is leb, which means to hang down or hang loosely (also related to lapse).  In Middle English (lappe) and Anglo-Saxon (lappa),  the word refers to the front part of a garment that hangs down like a skirt or folds over on itself.

I’m feeling better about the appearance of my LAP.  It’s evidently supposed to hang down and fold over.  Those ancient  PIE speakers were pretty smart, don’t you think?

Q4U: I used to love to sit on my mother’s LAP while she read stories.  I remember my grandmother shelling peas into the apron on her LAP.  Any good LAP memories out there?

Blessings, Sue