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

1. round object; orb
2. vessel; container; bowl
3. knoll; hilltop; summit
4. 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

      • 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: 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)