cuppeborde

cuppeborde

Middle English

Alternative forms

• copborde, cope-bord, cupborde

Etymology

From cuppe +‎ bord (“table”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkupəˌboːrd/, /ˈkupəburd/, /ˈku(p)boːrd/, /ˈku(p)burd/

Noun

cuppeborde (plural cuppebordes)

1. sideboard
   • c. 1380, John Wycliffe, Of Antecrist and his Meynee; published as John Wycliffe; James Henthorn Todd, Three Treatises by John Wycklyffe, D.D. I. Of the Church and Her Members. II. Of the Apostacy of the Church. III. Of Antichrist and His Meynee. Now First Printed from a Manuscript in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, with Notes and a Glossary, by James Henthorn Todd, D.D., Dublin: Hodges and Smith, Grafton-Street, booksellers to the University, 1851, OCLC 505328367, page cl:

     Loke Cristis copborde / & hors; & pei ben ful unlichy; for he was at þe mete where six watur pottes weren / & he was þe worþiest in þat place.

   • c. 1400, the Alliterative Morte Arthure; published as James Orchard Halliwell, editor, Morte Arthure. The Alliterative Romance of the Death of King Arthur. Now First Printed from a Manuscript in Lincoln Cathedral, Brixton Hill, London: For private circulation only, 1947, OCLC 5347067, page 18:

     The kyngez cope-borde / was enclose in silver, / In grete goblettez over]gylte / glorious of hewe; […]

Descendants

• English: cupboard
  • → Chichewa: m'kabati
  • → Farefare: kobɔɔtɩ
  • → Gulf Arabic: كبت‎ (kabat)
  • → Luhya: likapati
  • → Maori: kāpata
  • → Swahili: kabati
  • → Zulu: ekhabetheni

References

• “cuppe-bō̆rd, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.