Kopp

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• IPA^(key): [ˈkop]

Kopp m anim (female equivalent Koppová)

1. a male surname from German

• “Kopp”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

• Kuub

Compare German Kopf.

Kopp m (plural Kepp)

1. (Erzgebirgisch) head
2. (Erzgebirgisch) hill, hilltop

• Koppkissn
• Kopptichl
• Koppwitting
• -keppit
• Keppr

• Hendrik Heidler (11 June 2020), Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎^[1] (in German), 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 75

From Central and Low German dialects, from northern Middle High German and Middle Low German kop. Compare Appel, kloppen, Knopp, and several other such forms that are usual in colloquial Standard German.

• IPA^(key): /kɔp/, [kɔp]

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Kopp m (strong, genitive Kopps, plural Köppe) (colloquial, northern and central Germany)

1. alternative form of Kopf (“head”)

   Der hat ’n Kopp wie ’n Ochse.

   He has a head like an ox.

   • 2000, “Türlich, türlich”‎^[2]performed by Das Bo:

     [Der Sound,] bei dem die Ladys alles schütteln / Den Typen so vermitteln / Wenn sie stehn, sich nicht bewegen, sind sie derbe schief gewickelt / Mit ’ner Windel um’n Kopp / Stehn die Typen dann im Club / Kucken spastisch aus der Wäsche wie gekaut und ausgespuckt

     [The sound] to which the ladies shake what they’ve got / Thereby letting the guys know / If they stand around without moving, they’re completely off target [lit. swaddled askew] / With nappies round their heads / The guys stand in the club / Looking like spastics who’ve been chewed up and spat back out

2. used to make all kinds of humorous, somewhat negative words for people

   Suffkopp ― drunkard

   Quatschkopp (compare Quatschkopf) ― excessive talker, braggart

   Kindskopp ― childish person

• Fischkopp
• Käskopp
• Köpper
• nich' lang schnacken, Kopp in'n Nacken

• “Kopp”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[3] (in German)

From Middle High German and Old High German kopf, from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz. Cognate with German Kopf, Luxembourgish Kapp.

• IPA^(key): /kʰop/

Kopp m (plural Kepp, diminutive Keppche)

1. head

   Mein Kopp dud weh.

   My head hurts.

• Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “Kopp”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch

From Middle High German kopf, from Old High German *kuppa, northern variant of kupha, from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz. Cognate with German Kuppe.

• IPA^(key): /kop/
  • Rhymes: -op

Kopp f (plural Koppen, diminutive Këppchen)

1. peak, summit, hilltop
2. head

From Rhine Franconian, from Middle High German and Old High German kopf, from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz. Compare German Kopf, Dutch kop.

Kopp m (plural Kepp)

1. head

From German Low German Kopp, from Middle Low German koppe, from Old Saxon *kopp, from Proto-West Germanic *kopp.

Kopp m (plural Kjap)

1. head

Ultimately cognate to Kopf.

Kopp m

1. head (part of the body which is above the neck)

• Fred C. Koch, The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present
• Erika Obodchouk (born Hummel), Die klinge hell, in Die Geschichte der Wolgadeutschen