kūreep
Marshallese
Etymology
Borrowed from English grape, from Middle English grape, from Old French grape, grappe, crape (“cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes”), from graper, craper (“to pick grapes”, literally “to hook”), of Germanic origin, from Old Low Frankish *krappō (“hook”), from Proto-Germanic *krappô (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb- (“hook”), *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”).
Pronunciation
- (phonetic) IPA(key): [kɯrˠeːpʲ]
- (phonemic) IPA(key): /kirˠejepʲ/
- Bender phonemes: {kirȩyȩp}
Noun
kūreep
- a grape
References
- Marshallese–English Online Dictionary