Stulpe

German

Etymology

Perhaps cognate with Old Norse stolpi (“post”) (compare Norwegian Bokmål stolpe) and Latvian stulbs. Ultimately maybe from Proto-Indo-European *stel-.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃtʊlpə/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: Stul‧pe

Noun

Stulpe f (genitive Stulpe, plural Stulpen)

  1. gauntlet (glove covering the wrist)
  2. leg warmer (footless sock)

Declension

Declension of Stulpe [feminine]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Stulpe die Stulpen
genitive einer der Stulpe der Stulpen
dative einer der Stulpe den Stulpen
accusative eine die Stulpe die Stulpen

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1995) “Stulpe”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 23rd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 805

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