Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗name
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA surname. · A town in Washington County, North Carolina, United States. · The Roper River (a river in the Katherine Region, Northern Territory, Australia) · Ngukurr (a town in Roper Gulf, Katherine Region, Northern Territory, Australia)
* As an English surname, from the noun roper * As a north/Low German surname for the town crier, from Middle Low German ropen (“to call”), from Old Saxon hrōpan.
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