keep – Dutch noun declension

Dutch noun forms of keep

Noun: keep
Gender: Feminine, Masculine Hyphenation:
Sg.keep
Pl.kepen; keeps

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like keep

keep,

Etymology

From Middle Dutch *kēp, *kip, from Old Dutch *kip (compare Old Dutch kip (“fetter”)), from Proto-West Germanic *kipp- (“to cut, split”), from Proto-Germanic *kipp- (“to split”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵey- (“to split, divide, geminate, sprout”). Cognate with Middle Low German kēp ("notch, incision"; > German Low German Keep (“score, notch, nick”)), Old English ċipp (“shaving, chip”).

Verbs referencing "keep"

Old English Nouns cipp.

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