Reconstruction:Latin/toppus

This Latin entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *topp (“summit, top”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoppos/

Noun

*toppus m (oblique *toppum); second declension (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

1. summit, top

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	*/ˈtoppos/	*/ˈtoppi/
oblique	*/ˈtoppu/	*/ˈtoppos/

Descendants

• Old French: top, tup, tupe, tope, toup
  • → Galician: tope
  • → Spanish: tope
  • → Portuguese: topo
  • ⇒ Old French: toupet
    • → Old Galician-Portuguese: topete
      • Galician: topete
      • Portuguese: topete
    • Middle French: toupet
      • French: toupet (see there for further descendants)
    • Norman: toupet, tupé
    • → Middle English: topet
  • ⇒? Old French: topoie, toupie, tourpe, tourpie
    • Middle French: toupie
      • French: toupie
• Italian: toppo
• Sicilian: tuppu