tæppere

Old English

Etymology

From tæppa +‎ -ere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtæp.pe.re/

Noun

tæppere m

1. tavern keeper, bartender
2. wine seller

Declension

Strong ja-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	tæppere	tæpperas
accusative	tæppere	tæpperas
genitive	tæpperes	tæppera
dative	tæppere	tæpperum

Derived terms

• tæppestre (“barmaid”)
• wīntæppere (“wine tapper”)

Related terms

• tæppa (“tap, spigot”)
• tæppian (“to open a cask, furnish with a tap”)

Descendants

• English: tapper

References

• John R. Clark Hall (1916) “tæppere”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “tæppere”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.