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
Declension of stapa (weak)
Case Singular Plural
nominative stapa stapan
accusative stapan stapan
genitive stapan stapena
dative stapan stapum

Derived terms
  • ānstapa
  • eardstapa
  • græsstapa
  • hǣþstapa
  • hildstapa
  • mearcstapa
  • mōrstapa

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

stapa (Cyrillic spelling стапа)

  1. third-person singular present of stapati
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