tapp

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Derived how?”) From the verb tapma.

tapp (genitive tapu, partitive tappu)

1. killing

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tapp

1. singular imperative of tappen

• (Courland) tappõ

From Proto-Finnic *tappadak.

tapp

1. kill

tapp

1. alternative form of tappe (“plug”)

tapp

1. alternative form of tappe (“gentle touch”)

From Old Swedish tapper, from Old Norse tappi, from Proto-Germanic *tappô (“tap, plug”), see also English tap, Danish tap.

tapp c

1. tenon, trunnion, peg, pin
2. tap, faucet, spigot
3. (anatomy) cone cell (any of the cylindrical photoreceptor cells in the retina)
4. (regional, colloquial) gas station

Deverbal from tappa. First attested in 1966.

tapp n

1. drop, reduction, decrease

• tapp in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• tapp in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)