stap

stap (third-person singular simple present staps, present participle stapping, simple past and past participle stapped)

1. (obsolete) Eye dialect spelling of stop.

• stap my vitals

• APTS, APTs, ATSP, PATs, PTAs, PTSA, TAPs, TPAs, ap'ts, past, pats, spat, taps

• zdap

Prefixed form of tap ,onomatopoeia.Compare Old English stæf, Dutch staf, German Stab, Swedish stav, all meaning 'stick, staf

stap m

1. stick, staff
2. bat

• zhdëp

Unknown.

stap

1. female goat
   • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:

     Stap. Capra.

• Rhymes: -ɑp
• IPA^(key): /stɑp/

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stap m (plural stappen, diminutive stapje n)

1. step

• voetstap

stap

1. first-person singular present indicative of stappen
2. imperative of stappen

• past, spat, taps

From Old English stæppan.

stap

1. Alternative form of steppen

From Old English stæpe.

stap

1. Alternative form of steppe

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (“to push, stick”).

stap (third-person singular present staps, present participle stappin, past stappeet, past participle stappeet)

1. (South Scots) to push (something into something); to force (something into something)

From English stop

stap

1. To be

   Balus i stap long graun.

   The airplane is on the ground.

   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 1:26:

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stap

1. Used to form the progressive tense.

   Em i go i stap. He is going.

   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 2:9:

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

Tok Pisin tense markers:

• pinis (past perfect tense)
• bin (simple past tense)
• stap (progressive tense)
• bai/baimbai (future tense)