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top

Signification (Anglais)

Opposé de
bottom, base, underside, foot
Fréquence

A2
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/tɒp/
Étymologie (Anglais)

In summary

From Middle English top, toppe, from Old English topp (“top, highest part; summit; crest; tassel, tuft; (spinning) top, ball; a tuft or ball at the highest point of anything”), from Proto-West Germanic *topp, from Proto-Germanic *tuppaz (“braid, pigtail, end”), of unknown ultimate origin. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Top (“top”), Cimbrian sĂČpf (“braid”), Dutch top (“top, summit, peak”), German Topp (“top of a mast”), Zopf (“braid, pigtail, plait, top”), Luxembourgish Zapp (“plait, tress”), Vilamovian cöp (“braid, plait”), Yiddish ŚŠŚÖžŚ€ÖŒ (tsop, “braid”), Danish top (“top”), Icelandic toppur (“top”), Norwegian BokmĂ„l, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish topp (“top, peak, summit, tip”), Italian zuffa (“brawl”). The sense of a spinning toy is separated from this, obscurely related to Dutch top and dop in this sense, against Standard Dutch tol, and French toupie having this sense.

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