tæppestre

Old English

Etymology

From tæppa +‎ -estre; compare tæppere (“barkeep, tavern-keeper”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtæp.pes.tre/

Noun

tæppestre f (nominative plural tæppestran)

1. a female tavern-keeper, tapster, barmaid

Declension

Weak feminine (n-stem):

	singular	plural
nominative	tæppestre	tæppestran
accusative	tæppestran	tæppestran
genitive	tæppestran	tæppestrena
dative	tæppestran	tæppestrum

Related terms

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

Descendants

• Middle English: tappestere, tapestere, tapister, tappester, tappster, tapstare, tapster, tapstere
  • English: tapster
    • ⇒ English: tapstress

References

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