yppa

From Old Norse yppa, from Proto-Germanic *uppijaną (“to raise, lift”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪhpa/

  Rhymes: -ɪhpa

yppa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative yppti, supine yppt)

1. to lift, raise (most often used of raising the shoulders or a hat)

• yppa öxlum

• yppet

yppa

1. inflection of yppe:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

From Proto-Germanic *uppijaną (“to raise, lift”).

yppa (singular past indicative ypti, plural past indicative yptu, past participle yptr)

1. to lift, raise
2. to announce [with dative]
   • Óðins nǫfn 1/1

     Nú skal’k yppa · Óðins nǫfnum

     Now I shall announce the names of Óðinn

• Icelandic: yppa
• Faroese: yppa
• Norwegian:
  • Bokmål: yppe
  • Nynorsk: yppe, yppa
• Swedish: yppa
• Danish: yppe

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “yppa”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

From Old Swedish yppa, from Old Norse yppa, from Proto-Germanic *uppijaną. Cognate of Danish yppe, Middle Low German uppen, Old English yppan.

yppa

1. reveal, disclose, divulge

   yppa en hemlighet

   reveal a secret

2. (reflexive) come forth, appear, present itself, arise, turn up

   ett tillfälle yppade sig

   an opportunity presented itself

The passive voice is identical in meaning to the reflexive form. Thus ett tillfälle yppas means the same as ett tillfälle yppade sig.

• yppandeförbud (“non-disclosure order”)

• yppa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• yppa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• yppa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• yppa in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)