The story
- Old English · derived fromcopp“top, summit”
- Old English · derived fromcopel“unsteady, rocking”
- English todayCopplestone
Perhaps from Old English copel (“unsteady, rocking”) + stān (“stone”). Alternatively, the first element might be related to Old English copp (“top, summit”), through the adjective coppel (“peaked, rounded”).
Words from the same roots
Old Englishcopp all →
cupcapcopCopleyCoppCuppettWarcop
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.