Dictionary:kapp

Nynorn

Etymology

Scottish National Dictionary

O.Sc. cap, capp, a wooden dish, a measure of quantity; cap out, denoting the emptying of the bowl in drinking; later forms of cop with usual change of o to a before p (D.O.S.T.); Mid.Eng. coppe, variant of cuppe, corresp. Norw. kopp, O.N. koppr, cup, small vessel. In the Islands, at least, the word has prob. come directly from the Norse, as the bowls themselves were orig. imported from Norway.

See also: Old Norse koppr (ONP)

Shetland use

An Etymological Dictionary of the Norn Language in Shetland (1928–1932)

Jakobsen, Jakob

†kapp [kap], sb., 1) a hole, hollow. 2) a wooden cup or bowl, esp. of the so-called “Norwa-kaps”, wooden vessel, formerly imported from Norway; L.Sc. cap, caup. See further under kopp, sb.

Pronunciation

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Alternate Forms

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Noun

kapp

1. cup

Inflection

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Synonyms

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