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soap

Senso (Inglese)

Frequenza

B2
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/soʊp/
Etimologia (Inglese)

In summary

From Middle English sope, sape, from Old English sāpe (“soap, salve”), from Proto-West Germanic *saipā, from Proto-Germanic *saipÇ­, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *seyp- (“to pour out, drip, trickle, strain”). Cognate with Scots saip, sape (“soap”), Saterland Frisian Seepe (“soap”), West Frisian sjippe (“soap”), Dutch zeep (“soap”), German Low German Seep (“soap”), German Seife (“soap”), Danish sĂŠbe (“soap”), Swedish sĂ„pa (“soap”), Norwegian BokmĂ„l sĂ„pe (“soap”), Norwegian Nynorsk sĂ„pe (“soap”), Faroese sĂĄpa (“soap”), Icelandic sĂĄpa (“soap”), Finnish saippua (“soap”), Finnish suopa (“soft soap”). Related also to Old English sāp (“amber, resin, pomade, unguent”), Latin sēbum (“tallow, fat, grease”). See seep. Latin sāpƍ (“soap”) is a borrowing from the Germanic.

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