English
katkop
Katkop comes from Afrikaans katkop.
- Afrikaansmodernkatkopliterally ‘cat's head’
- Englishearliest quotation 1995same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Afrikaansmodernkatkopliterally ‘cat's head’
- Englishearliest quotation 1995same form
Earliest quotation: 1995, Nelson Mandela: “For supper, Coloured and Indian prisoners received a quarter…”
A compound of kat ‘cat’ + kop ‘head’
Dutch kat
Afrikaans kat ‘cat’
Proto-Indo-European *kewp-
Latin cūpa ‘tub, cask, vat’
Late Latin cuppa ‘drinking vessel’
Middle Dutch cop
Dutch kop ‘cup’
Afrikaans kop ‘head’
The story
Borrowed from Afrikaans katkop (literally “cat's head”) (from kat + kop), due to its shape resembling a cat's head.
Every English word from Afrikaans katkop
Today it means
noun Part of a loaf of bread.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Afrikaans katkop / katkop