Reconstruction:Latin/toppus

This Latin entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Latin edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Frankish *topp (“summit, top”).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈtoppos/

Noun edit

*toppus m (oblique *toppum); second declension (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

summit, top

Declension edit

	singular	plural
nominative	*/ˈtoppos/	*/ˈtoppi/
oblique	*/ˈtoppu/	*/ˈtoppos/

Descendants edit

Old French: top, tup, tupe, tope, toup
- → Galician: tope
- → Spanish: tope
- → Portuguese: topo
- ⇒ Old French: toupet
  - → Old Galician-Portuguese: topete
    - Galician: topete
    - Portuguese: topete
  - Middle French: toupet
    - French: toupet (see there for further descendants)
  - Norman: toupet, tupé
  - → Middle English: topet
- ⇒? Old French: topoie, toupie, tourpe, tourpie
  - Middle French: toupie
    - French: toupie
Italian: toppo
Sicilian: tuppu