neep

From Middle English neep, from Old English nǣp (“turnip, rape”), borrowed from Latin nāpus. Compare Icelandic næpa (“turnip”).

Cognate with English turnip.

neep (plural neeps)

1. (chiefly Scotland) The swede (rutabaga); turnip.
   • 1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 494:

     Poor Mr Piddle with his long think neck and his long thin head, as bald as a neep and something the shape […]

• neep lantern

• peen, pene, pene-

• nepe, neppe
• næp, nap (Early Middle English)

From Old English nēp, nǣp, from Latin nāpus, from Ancient Greek νᾶπυ (nâpu).

• IPA^(key): /neːp/, /nɛːp/

neep (plural neeps)

1. turnip

• English: neep
• Scots: neep
• Yola: neape, neap, nape
• → Welsh: maip
• ⇒ Middle English: turnepe
  • English: turnip
  • Yola: dhernapès (plural)

• “nẹ̄p, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-1-7.