Etymology

lop

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Today it means: To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone. Full definition →

Middle English loppe
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lop · verb, noun1

  1. Middle English · inherited fromloppe“bough”
  2. English todaylop

From Middle English loppe (“bough”); the verb is a back-formation from the noun.

lop · noun2

  1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*luppijaną“to jump, dart”
  2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*luppǭ“flea, sandflea", originally, "jumper”
  3. Old English · inherited fromloppe“spider, silk-worm, flea”
  4. Middle English · inherited fromloppe“flea, spider”
  5. English todaylop

From Middle English loppe (“flea, spider”), from Old English loppe (“spider, silk-worm, flea”), from Proto-Germanic *luppǭ (“flea, sandflea", originally, "jumper”), from Proto-Germanic *luppijaną (“to jump, dart”). Cognate with Danish loppe (“flea”), Swedish loppa (“flea”). Compare also Middle High German lüpfen, lupfen (“to raise”, obsolete also “to rise”).

lop · noun3

Back-formation from lopsided.

Lop · proper noun4

  1. Uyghur · borrowed fromلوپ
  2. English todayLop

Borrowed from Uyghur لوپ (lop).

Words from the same roots

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