cype – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of cype

Noun: cype
Gender:

Nominative

Singularcȳpe
Pluralcȳpan

Genitive

Singularcȳpan
Pluralcȳpena

Dative

Singularcȳpan
Pluralcȳpum

Accusative

Singularcȳpan
Pluralcȳpan

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like cype

cype,

Etymology

1. Origin Uncertain.
2. Perhaps from Proto-West Germanic *kūpijā (“bucket”), diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *kūpu (“tub, vat”).
3. Alternatively, from Proto-West Germanic *kīpā, from Proto-Germanic *kīpǭ, *kippǭ (“basket”), from Proto-Indo-European *gey- (“to bend, twist”); related to Middle Dutch kiepe (“basket”), Middle Low German kîpe (“basket”), Old Norse kippa (“basket”). Compare also Norwegian kaup (“crate, wooden box”). See: Old Norse Nouns 'kippa'.

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