Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wōpijaną

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to cry out, to lament

Inflection
The evolution of this verb's conjugation is unusual and controversial. Unlike usual expectations, it is weak in Gothic and strong class 7 with a reduplicated preterite in Old English. Orel and Ringe disagree on how this situation arose.
 * Orel believes that there were two separate, but related homophonous verbs in Proto-Germanic, with the weak verb being the derivative of the strong one.
 * Ringe believes that independently, Old Norse and Gothic made the strong verb weak due to analogy.
 * Kroonen makes no comment about this verb's paradigm, and in fact the verb is not mentioned at all in his Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic.