stap

See also: Stap and štap

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stæp/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -æp

Verb

stap (third-person singular simple present staps, present participle stapping, simple past and past participle stapped)

1. (obsolete) Pronunciation spelling of stop.

Derived terms

• stap my vitals

Anagrams

• APTS, APTs, ATSP, PATs, PSAT, PTAs, PTSA, Pats, TAPs, TPAs, Taps, ap'ts, apts, past, pats, spat, taps

Albanian

Alternative forms

• zdap

Etymology

Prefixed form of tap, onomatopoeia. Compare Old English stæf, Dutch staf, German Stab, Swedish stav, all meaning 'stick, staff’.

Noun

stap m

1. stick, staff
2. bat

Related terms

• zhdëp

Crimean Gothic

Etymology

Unknown. Compare Old Ruthenian цапъ (cap, “male goat”), attested in the 16th century.

Noun

stap

1. female goat
   • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:

     Stap. Capra.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑp
• IPA^(key): /stɑp/

• audio

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Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch stap. Possibly from the same Germanic form from which English step derives (Proto-Germanic *stapiz) but with the vowel reverted to -a- by analogy with the verb stappen; alternatively from a closely related form that was not subject to i-umlaut. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

stap m (plural stappen, diminutive stapje n)

1. step

   Synonym: (formal) schreden

Derived terms

• afstap
• misstap
• op stap
• opstap
• stappen
• stappenplan
• stapsgewijs
• stapvoets
• tussenstap
• vervolgstap
• voetstap

 

Descendants

• Afrikaans: stap
• Negerhollands: stap
• → Papiamentu: stap (dated)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

stap

1. inflection of stappen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

Anagrams

• past, spat, taps

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English stæppan.

Verb

stap

1. Alternative form of steppen

Etymology 2

From Old English stæpe.

Noun

stap

1. Alternative form of steppe

Scots

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (“to push, stick”).

Verb

stap (third-person singular simple present staps, present participle stappin, simple past stappeet, past participle stappeet)

1. (South Scots) to push (something into something); to force (something into something)

Tok Pisin

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Etymology

From English stop.

Verb

stap

1. To be

   Balus i stap long graun.

   The airplane is on the ground.

   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:26:

     Bihain God i tok olsem, “Nau yumi wokim ol manmeri bai ol i kamap olsem yumi yet. Bai yumi putim ol i stap bos bilong ol pis na ol pisin na bilong olgeta kain animal na bilong olgeta samting bilong graun.”

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Particle

stap

1. Used to form the progressive tense.

   Em i go i stap. He is going.

   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 2:9:

     Namel long dispela gaden i gat wanpela diwai i stap, em diwai bilong givim laip.

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See also

Tok Pisin tense markers:

• pinis (past perfect tense)
• bin (simple past tense)
• stap (progressive tense)
• bai/baimbai (future tense)