kobbe
Dutch edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Uncertain. Compare English cob (“male swan”) and dialectal German Koppe (“crow”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
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Noun edit
kobbe ? (plural ?)
- (Groningen, dialectal) the bird species European herring gull, Larus argentatus
- Synonym: zilvermeeuw
References edit
- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “kobbe1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
Further reading edit
- Matthias de Vries, Lambert Allard te Winkel (1864) “kobbe”, in Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, published 2001
- Kroonen, Guus (2011) The Proto-Germanic n-stems: A study in diachronic morphophonology, Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 285
Swedish edit
Noun edit
kobbe c
Declension edit
| Declension of kobbe | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | kobbe | kobben | kobbar | kobbarna |
| Genitive | kobbes | kobbens | kobbars | kobbarnas |
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West Flemish edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Dutch coppe, from Old Dutch *kopp, from Proto-West Germanic *kopp, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz (“vault, round vessel, head”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend, curve”). Compare Danish edderkop, Norwegian edderkopp, English coppe, Low German kobbe.
Noun edit
kobbe f