Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kuppaz

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

From earlier *kubnáz, from Proto-Indo-European *gup- (“round object, knoll”), from *gew- (“to bend, curve, arch, vault”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkup.pɑz/

Noun

*kuppaz m

round object; orb
vessel; container; bowl
knoll; hilltop; summit
crown (of the head); harnpan; skull; head

Inflection

masculine a-stemDeclension of *kuppaz (masculine a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*kuppaz	kuppōz, kuppōs
vocative	*kupp	kuppōz, kuppōs
accusative	*kuppą	*kuppanz
genitive	kuppas, kuppis	*kuppǫ̂
dative	*kuppai	*kuppamaz
instrumental	*kuppō	*kuppamiz

Derived terms

*kuppô

Descendants

Note: Descendants of this word were influenced by or conflated with unrelated Latin cūpa, a word of similar form and meaning.

Proto-West Germanic: *kopp
- Old English: copp
  - Middle English: cop, cope, coppe
    - English: cop
    - Scots: cop, coppe
    - Yola: kappas (plural)
    - → Welsh: copa
- Old Frisian: kopp, kop
  - North Frisian: kop
  - Saterland Frisian: Kop
  - West Frisian: kop
- Old Saxon: *kopp, *kop, kopp (in derivatives)
  - Middle Low German: koppe, kop
    - German Low German: Kopp
      - Plautdietsch: Kopp
      - → German: Kopp
- Old Dutch: *kopp, *kop
  - Middle Dutch: coppe, cop
    - Dutch: kop
      - Afrikaans: kop
      - Negerhollands: kop, koppi, kopi, kopje
        → Virgin Islands Creole: kop (dated)
      - Petjo: kop
      - Skepi Creole Dutch: kup
      - → Caribbean Javanese: kop
      - → Indonesian: kop
      - → Papiamentu: kòpi, koppi (from the diminutive, dated)
      - → Sranan Tongo: kopi, kopki
        → Kari'na: kopuma
  - West Flemish: kobbe
- Old High German: kopf, chopf, choph
  - Middle High German: kopf, koph
    - Alemannic German: Chopf
    - Bavarian:
      Cimbrian: khopf, khòpf (Sette Comuni)
    - Central Franconian:
      Hunsrik: Kopp
      Kölsch: Kopp
      Lorraine Franconian: Chapp, Chopp, Kopp
    - East Central German:
      Silesian East Central German: Kopp, Kepp
    - German: Kopf
    - Luxembourgish: Kapp
    - Rhine Franconian:
      Palatine German: Kapp, Kopp, Kupp
      Pennsylvania German: Kopp
      Volga German: Kopp
    - Yiddish: קאָפּ (kop)
- → Old French: cop m (“head”)
  - ⇒ Old French: copet, coupet
    - Middle French: copet, coupet
Old Norse: koppr (possibly from Middle Low German)
- Icelandic: koppur
- Faroese: koppur
- Norwegian Bokmål: kopp
- Norwegian Nynorsk: kopp
- Swedish: kopp
- Danish: kop
Crimean Gothic: kop (in compounds)