kerǝp-, krēp-

    kerǝp-, krēp-

    English meaning: cloth, leather; shoe

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “Zeug- or Lederlappen; especially Schuh”

    Material: Lat. carpisculum “a kind of shoes” (previously by Vopiscus and strange origin verdächtig as das similar carpatinus from Gk. καρβάτινος “from leather”, καρβατίνη “Lederschuh”); O.Ir. cairem ‘schuhmacher” (*kariamos, IE *ker[ǝ]p-), Welsh crydd ds. (*cerūdd, Celt.*karíjos), O.Corn. chereor, Bret. kere, kereour ds.; O.Ice. hriflingr, O.E. hrifeling “ shoe “; Lith. kùrpė, Ltv. kur̃pe, O.Pruss. kurpe “ shoe “ (*kūrpi̯ ü, IE *korǝp-); O.C.S. krъpa “textura, rag”, is-krъpiti, -ati “ausflicken”, Bulg. kъ́rpa “rag, kerchief, cloth; Flicken”, Serb. kȑpa “Fleck, Stuck canvas, fabric”; with the meaning “ shoe “, Serb. kȑplje ‘snowshoe”, Pol. kierpce “kind of Beschuhung”, Cz. krpec “Bastschuh”; with full grade the 2. syllable κρηπίς, -ῖδος “ shoe; Fundament a Baues” (Lat. Lw. crĕpĭda). Daß kerǝp- extension from (s)ker(e)- “cut, clip” sei, is probably.

    References: WP. I 425, WH. I 172, Trautmann 146.