kobbe

Dutch

Alternative forms

koab, koap, kaap

Etymology

Uncertain. Compare English cob (“male swan”) and dialectal German Koppe (“crow”).[1]

Pronunciation
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Noun

kobbe ? (plural ?)

  1. (Groningen, dialectal) the bird species European herring gull, Larus argentatus
    Synonym: zilvermeeuw

References
  1. van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “kobbe1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Further reading

Swedish
ejdrar på en kobbe

Noun

kobbe c

  1. a low, rocky, rounded islet (in a coastal archipelago)

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

See also

References

West Flemish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch coppe, from Old Dutch *kopp, from Proto-West Germanic *kopp, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz (“vault, round vessel, head”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend, curve”). Compare Danish edderkop, Norwegian edderkopp, English coppe, Low German Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

Noun

kobbe f

  1. spider

Derived terms
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