tapper
English
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Noun
[edit]tapper (plural tappers)
- One who makes a tapping noise.
- 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
- A low tap was heard at the room door. Mr. Bob Sawyer looked expressively at his friend, and bade the tapper come in […]
- A tap-dancer.
- A phone tapper or wiretapper.
- (baseball slang) A weakly hit ground ball.
- (telegraphy) In early wireless telegraphs, a device used to shake loose the filings of a coherer.
- (British, dialect) The lesser spotted woodpecker.
- (US) A tapster.
- (sports) An assistant in the sport of paraswimming who taps blind or visually impaired swimmers with a pole to indicate when they should turn around.
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[edit]Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Low German dapper, tapper. Further origin disputed. Possibly cognate with Old Norse dapr (“heavy”), German tapfer (“dauntless”) and English dapper.
Adjective
[edit]tapper
Inflection
[edit]| Inflection of tapper | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Comparative | Superlative | |
| Indefinte common singular | tapper | — | —2 |
| Indefinite neuter singular | tappert | — | —2 |
| Plural | tapre | — | —2 |
| Definite attributive1 | tapre | — | — |
| 1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. 2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively. | |||
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[edit]Estonian
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Etymology
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Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]tapper (genitive tapri, partitive taprit)
- battle axe (ancient military weapon)
- Synonyms: sõjakirves, võitluskirves
Declension
[edit]| Declension of tapper (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | tapper | taprid | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | tapri | ||
| genitive | taprite | ||
| partitive | taprit | tapreid | |
| illative | taprisse | tapritesse tapreisse | |
| inessive | tapris | taprites tapreis | |
| elative | taprist | tapritest tapreist | |
| allative | taprile | tapritele tapreile | |
| adessive | tapril | tapritel tapreil | |
| ablative | taprilt | tapritelt tapreilt | |
| translative | tapriks | tapriteks tapreiks | |
| terminative | taprini | tapriteni | |
| essive | taprina | tapritena | |
| abessive | taprita | tapriteta | |
| comitative | tapriga | tapritega | |
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Further reading
[edit]- “tapper”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
- “tapper”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- “tapper”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
- tapper in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
Middle English
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[edit]tapper
- Alternative form of taper
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Swedish dapper, from Middle Low German dapper, tapper. Further origin disputed. Possibly cognate with Old Norse dapr (“heavy”), German tapfer (“dauntless”) and English dapper.
Adjective
[edit]tapper (comparative tapprare, superlative tapprast)
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of tapper | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | tapper | tapprare | tapprast |
| Neuter singular | tappert | tapprare | tapprast |
| Plural | tappra | tapprare | tapprast |
| Masculine plural3 | tappre | tapprare | tapprast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | tappre | tapprare | tappraste |
| All | tappra | tapprare | tappraste |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic | |||
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[edit]References
[edit]- tapper in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- tapper in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- tapper in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- tapper in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
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