kelp

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /kɛlp/, enPR: kĕlp

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛlp

Inherited from Middle English *kelpe, culpe, *kilpe (Early Modern English kilpe), of unclear origin, though the attested forms point to Old English *cylp,^[1][2] possibly from Proto-West Germanic *kulpi, from Proto-Germanic *kulpiz (“lump, boll”, referencing the airsacks of species such as bladderwrack and knotweed), potentially a substrate term connected to Latin globus (“globe”) and Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“clump”).

If the above theory is accepted, cognate with Low German Kulp, Külp, Kulpe (“lump in the eye, ball, thick nose”), Norwegian Nynorsk kulp (“short tube”), and Swedish kulp (“stout person”); further compare Bavarian Kolpel (“lump of stone”), Icelandic kúlpa (“to protrude”), Low German kulpen, külpen (“to pile up”), Low German Kulpogen (“large eye”), and West Frisian kolpje (“to pout”).^[3][4]

kelp (countable and uncountable, plural kelps)

1. Any of several large brown algae seaweeds (especially of order Laminariales).

   Synonym: oyster grass

   • 2021 June 26, “Why New England is going wild for wet weeds”, in The Economist‎^[4], →ISSN:

     Underneath the area demarcated by the buoys, Ms Puckett plants kelp—a type of seaweed—on long ropes that resemble washing lines.

2. The calcined ashes of seaweed, formerly used in glass and iodine manufacture.

• In scientific usage, this term is increasingly restricted to members of order Laminariales, even though species not belonging to it are often referred to as "kelp" or have common names incorporating it.^[5]

• kombu

• stipe

• → French: kelp
• → German: Kelp
• → Irish: ceilp
• → Scottish Gaelic: ceilp
• → Spanish: quelpo

kelp (third-person singular simple present kelps, present participle kelping, simple past and past participle kelped)

1. (intransitive) To gather kelp.
   • 2018, John Walter Sutherland, Resurrection Road, page 94:

     Just before we reached Seward the pilot got a radio message that a fishing boat in Thumb Cove had some kelp […] Neither of us had ever kelped before but there wasn't much to it, and we started bringing in full boxes back to Eads' barge.

• kelper

From Middle English kelpe, kylpe, from Old Norse kilpr (“the handle of a vessel, loop”). Related to Old Norse kelpa (“otter trap”).

kelp (plural kelps)

1. (dialectal) A hook or crook by which a pot is hung over a fire.
2. (obsolete) A sheath.

• kelp on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “kelp”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

Borrowed from English kelp.

• IPA^(key): /kɛlp/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛlp

kelp m (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. kelp (Laminariales order algae)

   Hypernym: zeewier

• kelp on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Borrowed from English kelp.

• IPA^(key): /kɛlp/

kelp m (plural kelps)

1. kelp

   Synonyms: goémon, varech

kelp m (plural kelps)

1. alternative form of quelpo