different between envelop vs swaddle

English

Alternative forms

• invelop, invelope (obsolete)
• envelope (archaic)

Etymology

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 alternate form goluppare (“to wrap”)) from Vulgar Latin *vuloppare (“to wrap”), from Proto-Germanic *wlappan?, *wrappan? (“to wrap, roll up, turn, wind”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to turn, bend”) [1]. 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.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?n-v?l??p, IPA^(key): /?n?v?l?p/

Verb

envelop (third-person singular simple present envelops, present participle enveloping, simple past and past participle enveloped)

1. (transitive) To surround or enclose.

Translations

See also

• envelope

Dutch

Alternative forms

• enveloppe

Etymology

Borrowed from French enveloppe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n.v??l?p/, /??n.v??l?p/
• Hyphenation: en?ve?lop
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

envelop f (plural enveloppen, diminutive envelopje n)

1. An envelope, closing paper wrapper as used for mailing

Synonyms

• briefomslag

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: amplop
  • ? Ternate: amflop

Anagrams

• leven op, opleven

English

Etymology

From Middle English swathlen (“to bind; swaddle”), from Middle English swathel, swethel, from Old English swaþul, swæþel, sweþel, sweoþol (“swaddling cloth”), equivalent to swathe (“to wrap with fabric”) +? -le (agent/instrumental suffix), the word then underwent th-stopping (its voiced th became a d). Cognate with Middle Dutch swadel (“swaddling; bandage”), Old High German swedili (“poultice”), Old English sweþian, besweþian (“to wrap; swaddle”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sw?d?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sw?d?l/, /?sw?d?l/
• Rhymes: -?d?l

Verb

swaddle (third-person singular simple present swaddles, present participle swaddling, simple past and past participle swaddled)

1. To bind (a baby) with long narrow strips of cloth.
2. (archaic) To beat; cudgel.

Related terms

• swaddling

Translations

Noun

swaddle (plural swaddles)

1. Anything used to swaddle with, such as a cloth or band.

   • They put me in bed in all my swaddles.

Anagrams

• Dewalds, Waddles, dawdles, waddles