From Middle Dutch paepsch (“clerical”). By surface analysis, paap (“Roman Catholic cleric”) + -s.
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paaps (comparative paapser, superlative meest paaps or paapst)
Declension of paaps | ||||
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uninflected | paaps | |||
inflected | paapse | |||
comparative | paapser | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | paaps | paapser | het paapst het paapste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | paapse | paapsere | paapste |
n. sing. | paaps | paapser | paapste | |
plural | paapse | paapsere | paapste | |
definite | paapse | paapsere | paapste | |
partitive | paaps | paapsers | — |