wallop

From Middle English wallopen (“gallop”), from Anglo-Norman [Term?], from Old Northern French walop (“gallop”, noun) and waloper (“to gallop”, verb) (compare Old French galoper, whence modern French galoper), from Frankish wala hlaupan (“to run well”) from wala (“well”) + hlaupan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic hlaupaną (“to run, leap, spring”), from Proto-Indo-European klaub- (“to spring, stumble”). Possibly also derived from a deverbal of Frankish walhlaup (“battle run”) from wal (“battlefield”) from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (“dead, victim, slain”) from Proto-Indo-European wel- (“death in battle, killed in battle”) + hlaup (“course, track”) from hlaupan (“to run”). Compare the doublet gallop.

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