reave

Etymology

Came into English from Middle English reven, which developed from Old English rēafian, from Proto-West Germanic *raubōn. Its Germanic cognates include West Frisian rave, Old English rēaf (“spoils, booty”) and the Old English past participle rofen (“torn, broken”), as well as Norwegian rjuva, German rauben, Danish røve, and Swedish röva. Beyond Germanic, it is related to Latin rumpō (“to break”), Lithuanian rùpti (“to roughen”), and Sanskrit रोपयति (ropayati, “to make suffer”). See also rob and reif.