sap

Signification (English)

1. The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
2. The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
3. Any juice.
4. Vitality.
5. (slang) A naive person; a simpleton.

sève

saper

aubour

lymph

poke into

succus

turkey

dry up deplete

birch sap

plant sap

watery sap

sticky stuff

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Prononcé comme (IPA)

/sæp/

Inherited from moyen anglais

Inherited from ancien anglais

Cognate with néerlandais

Cognate with allemand

Cognate with islandais

Cognate with gallois

Cognate with latin

Cognate with russe

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Cognate with avestique

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In summary

From Middle English sap, from Old English sæp (“juice, sap”), from Proto-West Germanic *sap (“sap, juice”) (compare Dutch sap, German Saft, Icelandic safi), from Proto-Indo-European *sab-, *sap- (“to taste”) (compare Welsh syb-wydd (“fir”), Latin sapa (“must, new wine”), Russian со́пли (sópli, “snivel”), Old Armenian համ (ham, “taste”), Avestan 𐬬𐬌-𐬱𐬁𐬞𐬀 (vi-šāpa, “having poisonous juices”), Sanskrit सबर् (sabar, “juice, nectar”)). More at sage. The longstanding practice of sapping trees influenced the sense evolution of the military term as trench warfare receded from public conscience.

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