sap – English noun declension

English noun forms of sap

Noun: sap
Singularsap
Pluralsaps

Sample Sentences

  • In the preceding centuries the Ashkenazic Synagogue song had been Germanized to a degree that jeopardized not only its distinctive Jewishness but its very existence. In Eastern Europe, on the other hand, the ever-renewed Oriental sap penetrated also into the song. [1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 183:]
  • Look at the sap mowing our lawn while we pretend our own lawnmower is broken.
  • "Or trying to reproduce it."
  • "The Mafia wouldn't do that."
  • "Don't be a sap," Hiro says. "Of course they would."
  • Y.T. seems miffed at Hiro. [1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 234:]
  • She said I'm such a sap, I'm such a jerk / Can't I ever forget the way that we are / Spend all your time with your eyes on the ground / Looking for the stars [1997, “Don't Look Down”, in Curtains, performed by Tindersticks:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *sap-der.
3. Proto-West Germanic *sap
4. Old English sæp
5. Middle English sap
6. English sap
7. 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.
8. sap (“naive person”) is a clipping of sapskull (literally “person with sap in their skull”). See: Middle English Nouns 'sap', Old English Nouns 'sæp', Dutch Nouns 'sap', German Nouns 'Saft', Icelandic Nouns 'safi', Latin Nouns 'sapa'.

Verbs referencing "sap"

Swedish Nouns saft.