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Erpo
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ERPO
English
Noun
en ERPO.
en Abené Clayton Utah campus open carry law under fresh scrutiny after Charlie Kirk shooting w:The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/14/utah-campus-concealed-carry-permit 2025-09-14 The bill did not come in a vacuum, but added to Utah’s already second amendment-friendly legislative landscape. The state doesn’t have extreme risk protection orders (Erpo), known as red-flag laws, which allow people such as police officers and family members to petition a judge to have someone’s firearms temporarily taken away. https://web.archive.org/web/20251030214906/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/14/utah-campus-concealed-carry-permit
Old Dutch
Etymology
Derived from odt *erp brown, dark, related to ang eorp, goh erpf and non jarpr.
Proper noun
odt proper noun m
odt male
Declension
Though the expected declension of a name ending on -o would be an-stem, place-names show that a-stem declension may also have been used:
m 1 Erp
Erpo Erpo Erpes Erpe 1 masculine a-stem noun - contracted
Descendants
dum Erpe
Further reading
Names in the Low Countries before 1150 (en + nl) by Kees Nieuwenhuijsen Living History Studies (2012).