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Stulpe

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German

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Etymology

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Perhaps cognate with Old Norse stolpi (post) (compare Norwegian Bokmål stolpe) and Latvian stulbs. Ultimately maybe from Proto-Indo-European *stel-.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈʃtʊlpə/
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  • Hyphenation: Stul‧pe

Noun

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Stulpe f (genitive Stulpe, plural Stulpen)

  1. gauntlet (glove covering the wrist)
  2. leg warmer (footless sock)

Declension

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1995) “Stulpe”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 23rd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 805

Further reading

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