Kopp
East Central German edit
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Kopp m (plural Kepp)
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Further reading edit
- 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, 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[1], 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 75:
German edit
Etymology edit
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.
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Noun edit
Kopp m (strong, genitive Kopps, plural Köppe)
- (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.
- (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
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Further reading edit
- “Kopp” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Hunsrik edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German and Old High German kopf, from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz. Cognate with German Kopf, Luxembourgish Kapp.
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Kopp m (plural Kepp, diminutive Keppche)
- head
- Mein Kopp dud weh.
- My head hurts.
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Luxembourgish edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German kopf, from Old High German *kuppa, northern variant of kupha, from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz. Cognate with German Kuppe.
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Pennsylvania German edit
Etymology edit
From Rhine Franconian, from Middle High German and Old High German kopf, from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz. Compare German Kopf, Dutch kop.
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Kopp m (plural Kepp)
Plautdietsch edit
Etymology edit
From German Low German Kopp, from Middle Low German koppe, from Old Saxon *kopp, from Proto-West Germanic *kopp.
Noun edit
Kopp m (plural Kjap)
Volga German edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately cognate to Kopf.
Noun edit
Kopp m
- head (part of the body which is above the neck)
References edit
- 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