soap – English noun declension

Noun: soap

Singular	soap
Plural	soaps

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like soap

soldier's woundwort, Nicosian, whopper, greypate, tactile sign language, chronotrope, Rosie Lee, dissentient, photoinactivator, sulphonediimine, coastal waterfall, residuary devise, bituminization, nitrosonaphthol, smṛiti, geosphere, backscreen, mensuralist, flocculate, flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *seyb-?
3. Proto-Germanic *saipǭ
4. Proto-West Germanic *saipā
5. Old English sāpe
6. Middle English sope
7. English soap
8. From Middle English sope, sape, from Old English sāpe (“soap, salve”), from Proto-West Germanic *saipā, from Proto-Germanic *saipǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *seyp- (“to pour out, drip, trickle, strain”).
9. 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 sæbe (“soap”), Swedish såpa (“soap”), Norwegian Bokmål såpe (“soap”), Norwegian Nynorsk såpe (“soap”), Faroese sápa (“soap”), Icelandic sápa (“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 sāpō (“soap”) is a borrowing from the Germanic. See: Middle English Nouns 'sope', Old English Nouns 'sāpe', Dutch Nouns 'zeep', German Nouns 'Seife', Danish Nouns 'sæbe', Swedish Nouns 'såpa', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'såpe', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'såpe', Faroese Nouns 'sápa', Icelandic Nouns 'sápa', Finnish Nouns 'saippua', Finnish Nouns 'suopa', Latin Nouns 'sēbum', Latin Nouns 'sāpō'.

Verbs referencing "soap"

Dutch Nouns soap, French Nouns soap, German Nouns Soap, German Nouns Seife, Irish Nouns sópa.