envelop

Etymology

Came into English via Middle English envolupen, from Old French anveloper, envoluper (modern French envelopper), formed from en- and voloper, vloper ("to wrap, wrap up") — compare Italian -viluppare, and the 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"). It is related 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"), and Old English wearp ("warp"). It is a doublet of enwrap.