stapa

See also: stąpa and štapa

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *stapō (“stepper”). The sense "grasshopper or locust" is possibly a clipping of græsstapa. Cognate with Old High German *stafo (attested in hewistafo “grasshopper, locust”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstɑ.pɑ/

Noun

stapa m

  1. stepper
  2. grasshopper, locust

Declension

Weak:

singular plural
nominative stapa stapan
accusative stapan stapan
genitive stapan stapena
dative stapan stapum

Derived terms

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

stapa (Cyrillic spelling стапа)

  1. third-person singular present of stapati
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