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

Weak:

	singular	plural
nominative	stapa	stapan
accusative	stapan	stapan
genitive	stapan	stapena
dative	stapan	stapum

Derived terms

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

Related terms

• stæppan

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

stapa (Cyrillic spelling стапа)

1. third-person singular present of stapati