Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To keep in a coop. · To shut up or confine in a narrow space; to cramp. · To unlawfully confine one or more voters to prevent them from casting their ballots in an election. · Of a police officer: to sleep or relax while on duty.
A basket, pen or enclosure for birds or small animals. · A wickerwork basket (kipe) or other enclosure for catching fish. · A narrow place of confinement, a cage; a jail, a prison. · A barrel or cask for holding liquids.
From Middle English cǒupe, cupe, from Old English cȳpe (“basket, cask”) or possibly from Middle Dutch cûpe (compare modern Dutch kuip, Saterland Frisian kupe, Middle Low German kûpe), from Old Saxon *kûpa, côpa (“cask”) (compare Middle Low German kôpe, Old High German chôfa, chuofa, Middle High German kuofe, modern regional German Kufe f (“cask”)), probably from Latin cūpa, Medieval Latin cōpa (“cask”) (thus a doublet of coupe, cup, and keeve). However, the Oxford English Dictionary notes that if the word is from Latin, “it is difficult to account for the umlaut in Old English cýpe”.
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- Derivation mentioncoupeenm
- Derivation mentioncȳpeang
- Derivation mentioncûpedum
- Cognate mentionkuipnl
- Cognate mentionkupestq
- Cognate mentionkûpegml
- Derivation mention*kûpaosx
- Cognate mentionkôpegml
- Cognate mentionchôfagoh
- Cognate mentionkuofegmh
- Cognate mentionKufede
- Derivation mentioncupala
- Doublet mentioncoupeen
- Doublet mentioncupen
- Doublet mentionkeeveen
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