stap

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See also: Stap and štap

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stæp/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -æp

Verb

stap (third-person singular simple present staps, present participle stapping, simple past and past participle stapped)

  1. (obsolete) Pronunciation spelling of stop.

Derived terms

Anagrams

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Prefixed form of tap, onomatopoeia. Compare Old English stæf, Dutch staf, German Stab, Swedish stav, all meaning 'stick, staff’.

Noun

stap m

  1. stick, staff
  2. bat

Related terms

Crimean Gothic

Etymology

Unknown. Compare Old Ruthenian цапъ (cap, “male goat”), attested in the 16th century.

Noun

stap

  1. female goat
    • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:
      Stap. Capra.

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch stap. Possibly from the same Germanic form from which English step derives (Proto-Germanic *stapiz) but with the vowel reverted to -a- by analogy with the verb stappen; alternatively from a closely related form that was not subject to i-umlaut. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

stap m (plural stappen, diminutive stapje n)

  1. step
    Synonym: (formal) schreden
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: stap
  • Negerhollands: stap
  • → Papiamentu: stap (dated)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

stap

  1. inflection of stappen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Anagrams

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English stæppan.

Verb

stap

  1. Alternative form of steppen

Etymology 2

From Old English stæpe.

Noun

stap

  1. Alternative form of steppe

Scots

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (“to push, stick”).

Verb

stap (third-person singular simple present staps, present participle stappin, simple past stappeet, past participle stappeet)

  1. (South Scots) to push (something into something); to force (something into something)

Tok Pisin

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Etymology

From English stop.

Verb

stap

  1. To be
    Balus i stap long graun.
    The airplane is on the ground.
    • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:26:
      Bihain God i tok olsem, “Nau yumi wokim ol manmeri bai ol i kamap olsem yumi yet. Bai yumi putim ol i stap bos bilong ol pis na ol pisin na bilong olgeta kain animal na bilong olgeta samting bilong graun.”
      →New International Version translation

Particle

stap

  1. Used to form the progressive tense.
    Em i go i stap. He is going.

See also

Tok Pisin tense markers:

Wikious
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