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Kopp

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Czech

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

Proper noun

Kopp m anim (female equivalent Koppová)

  1. a male surname from German

Declension

Declension of Kopp (hard masculine animate)
More information singular, plural ...

Further reading

  • “Kopp”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)
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East Central German

Alternative forms

Etymology

Compare German Kopf.

Noun

Kopp m (plural Kepp)

  1. (Erzgebirgisch) head
  2. (Erzgebirgisch) hill, hilltop

Derived terms

Further reading

  • Hendrik Heidler (11 June 2020), Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎ (in German), 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 75
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German

Etymology

Borrowed from German Low German and Central German Kopp; compare standard Upper German Kopf and German kop. Adopted from the dialects into colloquial standard German.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔp/, [kɔp]
  • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):(file)

Noun

Kopp m (strong, genitive Kopps, plural Köppe)

  1. (colloquial, regional, northern and central Germany) alternative form of Kopf (“head”)
    Der hat 'n Kopp wie 'n Ochse.
    He has a head like an ox.
  2. (colloquial, regional, northern and central Germany, in compounds) used to make all kinds of humorous, somewhat negative words for people
    Suffkopp ― drunkard
    Quatschkopp (compare Quatschkopf) ― excessive talker, braggart
    Kindskopp ― childish person

Declension

Declension of Kopp [masculine, strong]
More information singular, plural ...

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “Kopp” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German kopf, from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz. Cognate with German Kopf, Luxembourgish Kapp.

Pronunciation

Noun

Kopp m (plural Kepp, diminutive Keppche)

  1. head
    Mein Kopp dud weh.
    My head hurts.

Derived terms

  • Koppduch
  • Kopphoer
  • kopplos
  • Koppweh
  • Koppziegh

Further reading

  • Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “Kopp”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch
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Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Middle High German kopf, from Old High German *kuppa, northern variant of kupha, from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz. Cognate with German Kuppe.

Pronunciation

Noun

Kopp f (plural Koppen, diminutive Këppchen)

  1. peak, summit, hilltop
  2. head

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

From Rhine Franconian, from Middle High German and Old High German kopf, from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz. Compare German Kopf, Dutch kop.

Noun

Kopp m (plural Kepp)

  1. head

Plautdietsch

Etymology

From German Low German Kopp, from Middle Low German koppe, from Old Saxon *kopp, from Proto-West Germanic *kopp.

Noun

Kopp m (plural Kjap)

  1. head

Derived terms

Volga German

Etymology

Ultimately cognate to Kopf.

Noun

Kopp m

  1. head (part of the body which is above the neck)

References

  • Fred C. Koch, The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present
  • Erika Obodchouk (born Hummel), Die klinge hell, in Die Geschichte der Wolgadeutschen

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