The story
- Proto-Germanic · inherited from*supô
- Old English · inherited fromsopa“sopped bread”
- Middle English · inherited fromsop
- English todaysop
From Middle English sop, soppe, sope, from Old English sopa (“sopped bread”), from Proto-Germanic *supô (compare Dutch sop, Old High German sopfa), deverbative of *sūpaną (“to sup”). Doublet of soup; more at sup.
Words from the same roots
Proto-Germanic*supô all →
soup
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.