Etymology

shoop

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Today it means: The fruit of the rose; rosehip. Full definition →

Middle English schoupe ← Old Norse *hjúpa ← Proto-Germanic *heupǭ
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shoop · noun1

  1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*heupǭ“haw, hawthorn, thornbush, rosehip”
  2. Old Norse · derived from*hjúpa“rosehip”
  3. Middle English · inherited fromschoupe
  4. English todayshoop

From Middle English schoupe, from Old Norse *hjúpa (“rosehip”), from Proto-Germanic *heupǭ (“haw, hawthorn, thornbush, rosehip”). Cognate with Faroese hjúpa (“rosehip”), Old English hēope (“hip, rosehip”). Doublet of hip.

shoop · interjection2

A meaningless syllable.

shoop · noun3

A deliberate back-formation from sheep on the pattern of nouns which underwent Germanic i-mutation, such as feet from foot, geese from goose, and teeth from tooth; compare the similarly humorously formed meese from moose.

shoop · noun, verb4

Alteration of shop, a clipping of photoshop (“digitally altered image”).

Shoop · proper noun5

  1. Middle Low German · derived fromschōpe“ladle”
  2. Middle Dutch · derived fromschoepe
  3. German · derived fromSchoop
  4. English todayShoop

* As a German surname, Americanized from Schupp. * Also an Americanized spelling of Dutch and North German Schoop, from Middle Dutch schoepe and Middle Low German schōpe (“ladle”) (for which see modern Schöpflöffel).

Words from the same roots

Proto-Germanic*heupǭ all →

hipHeape

Middle Low Germanschōpe all →

Schopp

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.