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/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: Stul‧pe

Noun

Stulpe f (genitive Stulpe, plural Stulpen)

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

Declension

Derived terms

  • stülpen
  • Stulpenstiefel

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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