Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body. · A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare. · A (usually fictional) location or feature originally added to a map to detect plagiarism and copyright violations by other map makers or map services. · Someone with male-typical anatomy who passes as female.
To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap. · To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap. · To provide with a trap. · To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; to travel for the purpose of trapping.
From Middle English trappe, from Old English træppe, treppe (“trap, snare”) (also in betræppan (“to trap”)) from Proto-West Germanic *trappjā (“trap, snare”), from Proto-West Germanic *trappjan (“to step”), from Proto-Germanic *trapjaną (“to tread, stamp”), from Proto-Indo-European *drebʰ- (“to step, trip, trample”). Cognate with Dutch trap (“step, stair”), German Low German Trapp (“step, stair”). Akin also to West Frisian traap (“stepping, treading, stairway”), German Treppe (“step, stair”), Old English træppan (“to step, tread”). Connection to "step" is "that upon which one steps". French trappe and Spanish trampa are ultimately borrowings from Germanic.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentiontrappeenm
- Inherited-form mentiontræppeang
- Inherited-form mention*trappjāgmw-pro · trap, snare
- Derivation mention*trappjangmw-pro · to step
- Derivation mention*trapjanągem-pro · to tread, stamp
- Derivation mention*drebʰ-ine-pro · to step, trip, trample
- Cognate mentiontrapnl · step, stair
- Cognate mentiontraapfy · stepping, treading, stairway
- Cognate mentionTreppede · step, stair
- Cognate mentiontræppanang · to step, tread
- Non-cognate comparisontrappefr
- Non-cognate comparisontrampaes
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