kūreep
Appearance
Marshallese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English grape, from Middle English grape, from Old French grape, grappe, crape (“cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes”), from graper, craper (“to pick grapes”, literally “to hook”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *krappō (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb- (“hook”), *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (phonetic) IPA(key): [kɯrˠeːpʲ], (enunciated) [kɯrˠeepʲ]
- (phonemic) IPA(key): /kirˠejepʲ/
- Bender phonemes: {kirȩyȩp}
Noun
[edit]kūreep
- a grape
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]Categories:
- Marshallese terms borrowed from English
- Marshallese terms derived from English
- Marshallese terms derived from Middle English
- Marshallese terms derived from Old French
- Marshallese terms derived from Frankish
- Marshallese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Marshallese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Marshallese lemmas
- Marshallese nouns
- mh:Fruits
- mh:Grapevines