Noun: lap
Sample Sentences
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The boy was sitting on his mother's lap.
Nouns inflected like lap
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English lappe, from Old English læppa (“skirt or flap of a garment”), from Proto-West Germanic *lappō, from Proto-Germanic *lappô (“cloth; rag”), of uncertain origin, possibly Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely”). Cognate with Dutch lap (“cloth; rag”), German Lappen (“cloth; lobe; flap”), Icelandic leppur (“rag; patch”). See: Middle English Nouns '
lappe', Old English Nouns '
læppa', Dutch Nouns '
lap', German Nouns '
Lappen', Icelandic Nouns '
leppur'.
Verbs referencing "lap"
German Nouns
Löffel, Finnish Nouns
laappi.