toupet
See also: Toupet
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: tou‧pet
- IPA(key): /tupɛt/
French
Etymology
From Middle French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), from Old French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), diminutive of toupe, top (“tuft of hair”), from Frankish *topp (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), from Proto-Germanic *tuppaz (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”). Cognate with Old Dutch topp (“top”) (Dutch top), Old Frisian top (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), Old English top (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), Old High German zopf (“end, summit, tuft of hair”), Old Norse toppr (“tuft of hair, forelock”). More at top.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tu.pɛ/
Synonyms
- (cheek, nerve): culot
Further reading
- “toupet” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Alternative forms
- topet
Descendants
- French: toupet (see there for further descendants)
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (toupet, supplement)
Old French
Noun
toupet m (oblique plural toupez or toupetz, nominative singular toupez or toupetz, nominative plural toupet)
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (toupet, supplement)
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