Etymograph

English

sop

Sop comes from Old English sopa ‘sopped bread’, from Proto-Germanic *supô ‘soup, broth’, and ultimately from *suppōną ‘to soak’.

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*suppōną‘to soak’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanic, derivedc. 500 BCE–200 CE*sūpaną‘to sup’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Germanic, derivedc. 500 BCE–200 CE*supô‘soup, broth’reconstructeddeverbative of *sūpaną
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150sopa‘sopped bread’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500sop
  6. Englishearliest quotation c. 1602same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*suppōną‘to soak’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanic, derivedc. 500 BCE–200 CE*sūpaną‘to sup’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Germanic, derivedc. 500 BCE–200 CE*supô‘soup, broth’reconstructeddeverbative of *sūpaną
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150sopa‘sopped bread’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500sop
  6. Englishearliest quotation c. 1602same form

Earliest quotation: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida: “The bounded Waters, / Should lift their boſomes higher…”

Linked words

through Proto-Germanic *sūpaną ‘to sup’

sup, 1 more

through Proto-Germanic *supô ‘soup, broth’

supper, soup, 2 more

Today it means

noun Something entirely soaked.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *suppōną / sop

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