- raip
- filth, foul mouth, raipeas, foul mouth, rapach, slovenly, foul-mouthed; Middle Irish rap, annimals that draw food to them from earth, as the pig and its like (O'Cl.), Early Irish rap (Corm., rop for cows, etc.): rab-tho-, root rab, srab, Latin sorbeo? Stokes gives the stem as *rapno-, root rap of Latin rapio, I seize. The German raffen, seize, snatch, has also been suggested.
Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. Alexander Gairm Publications. 1982.