Just up and do something

[nq:1]What part of speech is the "up" in the expression "just up and do something"? 1a. He just up and ... and 1b are more common, which means most people don't treat the "up" as a verb. Then what is it?[/nq]
Main Entry: 5up
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): upped /'&pt/; or in intransitive sense 2 up; upped; up?ping; ups or in intransitive sense 2 up
intransitive senses

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[nq:1]What part of speech is the "up" in the expression "just up and do something"? 1a. He just up and ... and 1b are more common, which means most people don't treat the "up" as a verb. Then what is it?[/nq]
It's a verb. MWCD10:
Main Entry: 5up
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): upped /'&pt/; or in intransitive sense 2 up; upped; up·ping; ups or in intransitive sense 2 up
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What part of speech is the "up" in the expression "just up and do something"?
1a. He just up and left.
1b. He just upped and left.
2a. What if he just up and dies?
2b. What if he just ups and dies?"
From googling around it appears that forms like 1a and 1b are more common, which means most people don't treat the "up" as a verb. Then what is it?
I suggest that you treat "up

[nq:1]What part of speech is the "up" in the expression "just up and do something"? 1a. He just up and ... But the dictionaries put it there and it does not fit anywhere else either. Wonder what the linguists call this?[/nq]
"OOh! /
Oi ara, oi ara, oi ara, oi aar!/
An' oi up an' oi showed er the waay!"
Mike.

I suggest that you treat "up and" as an idiom.
I note now that you can group "up and" with
"go and"
"try and"
I looked, without success, for a list of all the verbs that would fit in the "go" or "try" position.
Richard Maurer To reply, remove half
Sunnyvale, California of a homonym of a synonym for also.

[nq:1]I suggest that you treat "up and" as an idiom. I note now that you can group "up and" with "go and" "try and" I looked, without success, for a list of all the verbs that would fit in the "go" or "try" position.[/nq]
Is there any equivalent in other languages to the English "up" - when used to mean "completion"? Drink up, eat up, wash up, smash up, cover up, call up, cut up, light up, loo

[nq:1]Is there any equivalent in other languages to the English "up" - when used to mean "completion"? Drink up, eat ... call up, cut up, light up, look up, plug up, dress up, cover up, show up, break up, etc., etc.[/nq]
In Yiddish, the prefix "der-" has a similar role. So for instance "trinken" is 'drink', and "dertrinken" is 'drink up'. Not all verbs use "der-" for this meaning, however, I t

[nq:1]I suggest that you treat "up and" as an idiom. I note now that you can group "up and" with "go and" "try and"[/nq]
None of these quite behaves the same as the other two. With "up and", the verb that follows the "and" can be in any inflected form: "He up and runs from the room," "He up and ran from the room," "We up and run from the room," "They've up and run from the room." "Go and" is s

[nq:2]I suggest that you treat "up and" as an idiom. ... verbs that would fit in the "go" or "try" position.[/nq]
[nq:1]Is there any equivalent in other languages to the English "up" - when used to mean "completion"? Drink up, eat ... call up, cut up, light up, look up, plug up, dress up, cover up, show up, break up, etc., etc.[/nq]
German: 'auf'; sometime 'aus' (out). Russian uses a varie

[nq:2]I suggest that you treat "up and" as an idiom. I note now that you can group "up and" with "go and" "try and"[/nq]
[nq:1]None of these quite behaves the same as the other two. With "up and", the verb that follows the "and" ... up and ran from the room," "We up and run from the room," "They've up and run from the room."[/nq]
I wonder how common this is. I don't use 'up' much, but when