Talk:lappen

Examples of happen or lapt
Here is a most excellent example from The Little White Bird by JM Barrie - "and as the sun, his true father, lapt him in its dancing arms, he sent his love to a lady of long ago whom he called by the sweetest of names, not knowing in his innocence that the little white birds are the birds that never have a mother." Chesscat2012 (talk) 09:17, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

RFV discussion: March 2019–April 2020
Rfv-sense "to enfold, to embrace". I have never heard of this one and it wasn't in the dictionaries I checked. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  08:05, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
 * A comment left on Talk:lappen shows that the editor who added this got confused in interpreting the old-fashioned past participle lapt of the English verb in the sense “to enfold; to hold as in one's lap” (descendant of the Middle English verb ), imagining it to be the past participle of a now non-existent English verb  and then got the L2 wrong to boot. (The word “happen” in the section title is, apparently, a confusing typo for “lappen”. How hapless this all.)  --Lambiam 23:29, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
 * RFV-deleted &mdash; surjection &lang;??&rang; 15:50, 19 April 2020 (UTC)