kroep

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /krup/
  • Hyphenation: kroep
  • Rhymes: -up

Etymology 1

Probably borrowed from French croup, from English croup.

Noun

kroep m (uncountable)

  1. croup (viral or diphtherial infection of the larynx)

Etymology 2

Probably borrowed from French croupe, from Middle French , from Old French croupe, from Old Norse kroppr (“body, trunk, mass”), from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body, mass, heap, collection, crop”).

Noun

kroep f (uncountable)

  1. croup, croupe (hindpart of the rump of a horse)
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