Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kopp

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kuppaz.

Noun

*kopp m

1. vessel, container, bowl
2. knoll, hilltop, summit
3. crown (of the head), harnpan, skull, head

Inflection

Related terms

• *kuppu

Descendants

Note: Descendants of this word were influenced by or conflated with unrelated Latin cūpa, a word of similar form and meaning.

• Old English: copp
  • Middle English: cop, cope, coppe
    • English: cop
    • Scots: cop, coppe
    • Yola: kappas (plural)
    • → Welsh: copa
• Old Frisian: kopp, kop
  • North Frisian: kop
  • Saterland Frisian: Kop
  • West Frisian: kop
• Old Saxon: *kopp, *kop, kopp (in derivatives)
  • Middle Low German: koppe, kop
    • German Low German: Kopp
      • Plautdietsch: Kopp
      • → German: Kopp
• Old Dutch: *kopp, *kop
  • Middle Dutch: coppe, cop
    • Dutch: kop
      • Afrikaans: kop
      • Negerhollands: kop, koppi, kopi, kopje
        • → Virgin Islands Creole: kop (dated)
      • Petjo: kop
      • Skepi Creole Dutch: kup
      • → Caribbean Javanese: kop
      • → Indonesian: kop
      • → Papiamentu: kòpi, koppi (from the diminutive, dated)
      • → Sranan Tongo: kopi, kopki
        • → Kari'na: kopuma
  • West Flemish: kobbe
• Old High German: kopf, chopf, choph
  • Middle High German: kopf, koph
    • Alemannic German: Chopf
    • Bavarian:

      Cimbrian: khopf, khòpf

    • Central Franconian:

      Hunsrik: Kopp

      Kölsch: Kopp

      Lorraine Franconian: Chapp, Chopp, Kopp

    • East Central German:

      Silesian East Central German: Kopp, Kepp

    • German: Kopf
    • Luxembourgish: Kapp
    • Rhine Franconian:

      Palatine German: Kapp, Kopp, Kupp

      Pennsylvania German: Kopp

      Volga German: Kopp

    • Yiddish: קאָפּ (kop)
• → Old French: copet, coupet