English

aheap

From a- + heap.

Formed from a- + heap

Proto-Indo-European *uds- ‘up, out’

Proto-Germanic *uz- ‘out-’

Proto-West Germanic *uʀ- ‘up, out, over’

English a-

Proto-Indo-European *koupos ‘hill’

Proto-Germanic *haupaz ‘heap, pile’

Proto-West Germanic *haup ‘heap, pile’

Old English hēap

Middle English hepe ‘crowd, multitude, assembly’

English heap

Today it means

adv In a heap; huddled together.

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