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Livonian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *lop'ëttadak.
Verb
lopp
- stop
- cease
Ludian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *loppu.
Noun
lopp
- end
Middle English
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old English loppa.
Noun
lopp
- Alternative form of loppe (“spider”)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Medieval Latin loppa.
Noun
lopp
- Alternative form of loppe (“bough”)
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish lop, from Middle Low German lôp, from Old Saxon hlōpan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaupan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną, of uncertain origin. Related to the verb löpa, corresponding to German laufen and English leap.
Pronunciation
Noun
lopp n
- a race (running competition or (in an extended sense) other speed competition, like in English)
- (chiefly in some compounds) a run (act or instance of running)
- a course (of a river or other watercourse, or more generally a path taken (a run) in some compounds)
- a bore (tunnel inside a gun's barrel), the inside of a pipe (from notion of a path taken)
- a course (of time)
under loppet av ett dygn- over the course of a day
inom (loppet av) ett år- within (the course of) a year
i det långa loppet- in the long run
Declension
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See also
Verb
lopp
- (archaic) past indicative of löpa
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