neep

English

Etymology

From Middle English neep, from Old English nǣp (“turnip, rape”), borrowed from Latin nāpus. Compare Icelandic næpa (“turnip”).

Cognate with English turnip.

Noun

neep (plural neeps)

1. (chiefly Scotland) The swede (rutabaga); turnip.
   • 1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 494:

     Poor Mr Piddle with his long think neck and his long thin head, as bald as a neep and something the shape […]

Derived terms

• neep lantern

Translations

swede

• Bulgarian: ряпа f (rjapa)
• Dutch: knolraap (nl) m
• Finnish: lanttu (fi)

Anagrams

• peen, pene, pene-

Middle English

Alternative forms

• nepe

Etymology

From Old English nǣp, from Latin nāpus, from Ancient Greek νᾶπυ (nâpu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /neːp/

Noun

neep (plural neeps)

1. turnip

Descendants

• English: neep
• Scots: neep
• Yola: neape, neap, nape
• → Welsh: maip
• ⇒ Middle English: turnepe
  • English: turnip
  • Yola: dhernapès (plural)

References

• “nẹ̄p, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-1-7.