stroop
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Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch stroop, from siroop.
Pronunciation
Noun
stroop (plural strope)
Descendants
- → Sotho: seturupu
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stroːp/, (Southern Dutch) , (Northern Dutch)
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: stroop
- Rhymes: -oːp
Etymology 1
From siroop, apparently via an intermediate sroop ,[1] in which a t was inserted to better fit Dutch phonology. For a similar insertion of t into sr compare Proto-Germanic *straumaz (“river, stream”) from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow, run”).
Noun
stroop f (plural stropen, diminutive stroopje n)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: stroop
- → Sotho: seturupu
- Petjo: stroop, seterop
- → Indonesian: setrup
- → Caribbean Javanese: setrup
- → Papiamentu: stropi
References
- ^ Marc van Oostendorp (2013 April 12) “De t in stroop”, in Neerlandistiek (in Dutch).
Etymology 2
Noun
stroop m (uncountable)
- poaching (the act of hunting illegally)