stappen
Meaning
-
- to march
- to step
- (Netherlands) to go out on the town
- (Belgium) to walk
Frequency
Hyphenated as
stap‧pen
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈstɑ.pə(n)/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch stappen, from Old Dutch *stappen, *steppen, from Proto-West Germanic *stappjan, from Proto-Germanic *stapjaną. By surface analysis, stap + -en. The sense to go out may derive from op stap (“on the town; out”).
New
stap
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step
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