trappa

Borrowed from Middle Low German trappe, from Old Saxon *trappa, from Proto-West Germanic *trappā. Similar to Norwegian trapp, Danish trappe and Swedish trappa.

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trappa f (genitive singular trappu, plural trappur)

1. stairs, stairway

• Homophones: trappas, trappât

trappa

1. third-person singular past historic of trapper

• trapa

Borrowed from Germanic. Compare Old English træppe. Found in the Lex Salica.^[1]

trappa f (genitive trappae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. trap
2. trapdoor

First-declension noun.

• trappula

• Catalan: trapa
  • → Galician: trapa
• Franco-Provençal: trapa
• Old French: trape, trappe
  • Middle French: trappe, trape
    • French: trappe
• Occitan: trapa

• trappen

trappa m or f

1. definite feminine singular of trapp

trappa f

1. definite singular of trapp

From Old Swedish trapa, trappa, borrowed from Middle Low German trappe, from Old Saxon *trappa, from Proto-West Germanic *trappā. Similar to Norwegian trapp, Danish trappe and Faroese trappa.

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trappa c

1. staircase, stairway, stairs, flight of stairs

   Hon gick upp/ner för trappan

   She walked up/down the stairs

   Trappan har tjugo trappsteg

   The staircase has twenty steps

• → Finnish: rappu, trappu (dialectal)
  • → Ingrian: trappu (from earlier trappu)

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• trapp

trappa (present trappar, preterite trappade, supine trappat, imperative trappa)

1. See trappa av, trappa upp and trappa ner.

• rulltrappa (“escalator”)
• trappa av
• trappa ner
• trappa upp
• trappavsats (“landing”)
• trapphus
• trappsteg
• trappstege (“stepladder”)
• trappuppgång

• trappa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• trappa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• trappa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• trappa in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• rappat, tappar, tappra