Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like. · A strap worn on the shoulder. · A strip of thick leather used in flogging. · Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use.
From a variant of earlier strope (“loop on a harness”), from Middle English strope, stroppe, from Late Old English strop, stropp (“a band, thong, strap; oar-thong”) and Old French estrope (“strap, loop on a harness”), both from Latin stroppus, struppus (“strap”), from Ancient Greek στρόφος (stróphos, “rope”) (compare strophe), from στρέφω (stréphō, “to twist”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *strebʰ- (compare Proto-West Germanic *stroppōn (“to twist, writhe”)). Cognate with Scots strap, strop (“strap, band, thong”), Dutch strop (“noose, strop, loop”), Low German Strop (“strap”), German Struppe, Strüppe, Strippe (“string, cord”), Danish strop (“strap”), Swedish stropp (“strap, loop”).
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- Inherited-form mentionstropeenm
- Inherited-form mentionstropang
- Derivation mentionestropefro · strap, loop on a harness
- Derivation mentionstroppusla
- Derivation mentionστρόφοςgrc · rope
- Derivation mention*strebʰ-ine-pro
- Cognate mention*stroppōngmw-pro · to twist, writhe
- Cognate mentionstrapsco
- Cognate mentionstropnl · noose, strop, loop
- Cognate mentionStropnds · strap
- Cognate mentionStruppede
- Cognate mentionstropda · strap
- Cognate mentionstroppsv · strap, loop
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