See also: kopp

East Central German edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Compare German Kopf.

Noun edit

Kopp m (plural Kepp)

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

Derived terms edit

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.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /kɔp/, [kɔp]
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Noun edit

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
    Suffkoppdrunkard
    Quatschkopp (compare Quatschkopf)excessive talker, braggart
    Kindskoppchildish person

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

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.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

Kopp m (plural Kepp, diminutive Keppche)

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

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

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.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

Kopp f (plural Koppen, diminutive Këppchen)

  1. peak, summit, hilltop
  2. head

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.

Noun edit

Kopp m (plural Kepp)

  1. head

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)

  1. head

Volga German edit

Etymology edit

Ultimately cognate to Kopf.

Noun edit

Kopp m

  1. 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