déraper

to skid, to slide; to drag; to get out of hand, to get out of control

Inherited from Middle French dialectal déraper (“to tear at”), from Occitan derapar, derrabar (“to tear, uproot”), from de- + rapar (“to seize, remove”), from Gothic *𐍂𐌰𐍀𐍉𐌽 (*rapōn, “to snatch, steal”), from Proto-Germanic *hrapōną, *hrēpōną (“to scratch, touch, pluck out, snatch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreb(h)-, *(s)kerb(h)- (“to turn, bend, shrink”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Old English hreppan (“to touch, treat”), Old Norse hreppa (“to tou