gabban

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *gabbōn, from Proto-Germanic *gabbōną (“to mock, jest”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ- (“to be split, be forked, gape”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑb.bɑn/

Verb

gabban

1. to scoff, mock, jest

Descendants

• English: gab

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “gabban”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.