Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kopp

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kuppaz.

Noun

*kopp m

vessel, container, bowl
knoll, hilltop, summit
crown (of the head), harnpan, skull, head

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*kopp
Genitive	*koppas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*kopp	koppō, koppōs
Accusative	*kopp	*koppā
Genitive	*koppas	*koppō
Dative	*koppē	*koppum
Instrumental	*koppu	*koppum

Descendants

Note: Descendants of this word were influenced by or conflated with unrelated Latin cūpa, a word of similar form and meaning.

Old English: copp
- Middle English: cop, cope, coppe
  - English: cop
  - Scots: cop, coppe
  - → Welsh: copa
Old Frisian: kopp, kop
- North Frisian: kop
- Saterland Frisian: Kop
- West Frisian: kop
Old Saxon: *kopp, *kop, kopp (in derivatives)
- Middle Low German: koppe, kop
  - German Low German: Kopp
    - Plautdietsch: Kopp
    - → German: Kopp
Old Dutch: *kopp, *kop
- Middle Dutch: coppe, cop
  - Dutch: kop
    - Afrikaans: kop
    - → Indonesian: kop
- West Flemish: kobbe
Old High German: kopf, chopf, choph
- Middle High German: kopf, koph
  - Alemannic German: Chopf
  - Bavarian:
    Cimbrian: khopf, khòpf
  - Central Franconian:
    Hunsrik: Kopp
    Kölsch: Kopp
    Lorraine Franconian: Chapp, Chopp, Kopp
  - East Central German:
    Silesian German: Kopp, Kepp
  - German: Kopf
  - Luxembourgish: Kapp
  - Rhine Franconian:
    Palatine German: Kapp, Kopp, Kupp
    Pennsylvania German: Kopp
    Volga German: Kopp
  - Yiddish: קאָפּ‎ (kop)
→ Old French: copet, coupet