Reap
Old English ripan, reopan, of unknown origin.
wiktionary
From Middle English repen, from Old English rēopan, rēpan, variants of Old English rīpan(“to reap”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīpan, from Proto-Germanic *rīpaną (compare West Frisian repe, Norwegian ripa(“to score, scratch”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyb-(“to snatch”).
etymonline
reap (v.)
"to cut grain with a hook or sickle, cut and gather a harvest," Middle English repen, from Old English reopan, a Mercian and Northumbrian (Anglian) form of repan, geripan "to reap," related to Old English ripe "ripe" (see ripe). The transferred and figurative use, "to gather in by effort of any kind; gather the fruit of labor or works" is as old as the word itself in English due to Biblical language. Related: Reaped; reaping. Reaping-machine is attested by 1762.
