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Cebuano
Pronunciation
Noun
kaupas
- a mushroom
Lithuanian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kā́ˀupas m, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂wp-os, from *keh₂wp- (“heap, pile”). Cognate with Proto-Slavic *kùpъ (“heap, mound”), Proto-Germanic *haupaz (“heap”).[1]
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Noun
kaũpas m (plural kaupaĩ) stress pattern 4
- heap, mound, pile
Declension
- kaũpti (“to pile up, dig up”)
- kuprà (“hump, hunch, back”)
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “kaupas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 233