sap
Betekenis
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- The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
- Any juice.
- Vitality.
- (slang) A naive person; a simpleton.
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Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/sæp/
Etymologie
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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