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ENVELOPINGS
Definition of ENVELOPINGS
Wiktionary has no entry for ENVELOPINGS itself. This is its base word, ENVELOP.
verb
To surround, enclose or enfold.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for ENVELOP.
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 alternative form goluppare (“to wrap”)) from Vulgar Latin *vuloppare (“to wrap”), from Proto-Germanic *wlappaną, *wrappaną (“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.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
6 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,843)
How it is built
Its etymology also names Danish, Middle Dutch, Middle Low German, Old English.
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ENVELOPINGS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 159, 26 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ENVELOPINGS starts with E and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EEGILNNOPSV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and N appear more than once.
Words that start ENVELOP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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