stap

• IPA^(key): /stæp/

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• Rhymes: -æp

stap (third-person singular simple present staps, present participle stapping, simple past and past participle stapped)

1. (obsolete) Pronunciation spelling of stop.

• stap my vitals

• ATSP, PTSA, TAPs, past, ap'ts, PATs, Apts, TAPS, PSAT, taps, spat, APTs, apts., ATPs, TPAs, ptas., Pats, PTAs, pats, APTS, apts, Taps

• zdap

Prefixed form of tap, onomatopoeia. Compare Old English stæf, Dutch staf, German Stab, Swedish stav, all meaning 'stick, staff’.

stap m

1. stick, staff
2. bat

• zhdëp

Unknown. Compare Old Ruthenian цапъ (cap, “male goat”), attested in the 16th century.

stap

1. female goat
   • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:

     Stap. Capra.

• Rhymes: -ɑp
• IPA^(key): /stɑp/

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From Middle Dutch stap. Possibly from the same Germanic form from which English step derives (Proto-Germanic *stapiz) but with the vowel reverted to -a- by analogy with the verb stappen; alternatively from a closely related form that was not subject to i-umlaut. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

stap m (plural stappen, diminutive stapje n)

1. step

   Synonym: (formal) schreden

• Afrikaans: stap
• Negerhollands: stap
• → Papiamentu: stap (dated)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

stap

1. inflection of stappen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• past, spat, taps

From Old English stæppan.

stap

1. Alternative form of steppen

From Old English stæpe.

stap

1. Alternative form of steppe

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (“to push, stick”).

stap (third-person singular simple present staps, present participle stappin, simple past stappeet, past participle stappeet)

1. (Southern Scots) to push (something into something); to force (something into something)

From English stop.

stap

1. To be

   Balus i stap long graun.

   The airplane is on the ground.

   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:26:

     Bihain God i tok olsem, “Nau yumi wokim ol manmeri bai ol i kamap olsem yumi yet. Bai yumi putim ol i stap bos bilong ol pis na ol pisin na bilong olgeta kain animal na bilong olgeta samting bilong graun.”

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stap

1. Used to form the progressive tense.

   Em i go i stap. He is going.

   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 2:9:

     Namel long dispela gaden i gat wanpela diwai i stap, em diwai bilong givim laip.

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Tok Pisin tense and aspect markers:

• pinis (completive aspect)
• bin (past tense)
• stap (progressive aspect or durative aspect)
• save (habitual aspect)
• bai/baimbai (future tense)