Kopf
English
editEtymology
editGerman surname, borrowed from German Kopf (see below). Compare Koepf.
Proper noun
editKopf (plural Kopfes)
- A surname from German.
Statistics
edit- According to the 2010 United States Census, Kopf is the 12775th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2415 individuals. Kopf is most common among White (94.58%) individuals.
Further reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Kopf”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 337.
German
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Alternative forms
edit- Kopp (colloquial; northern and central Germany)
Etymology
editFrom Middle High German kopf (“drinking vessel”), from Old High German kopf, chopf, kupf (“mug, bowl, head”), from Proto-West Germanic *kopp, from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz (“round object, bowl, crown of the head”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to turn, bend, arch, curve”).
Cognate with German Low German Kopp (“head”), Dutch kop (“head”), Saterland Frisian Kop (“head”), English cop (“the crown (of the head); the head”).
Alternatively, from or influenced by Late Latin cuppa, probably a form of Latin cūpa (“tub”) from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“a hollow”), related to English cup, although the form and gender make this derivation less likely.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editKopf m (strong, genitive Kopfes or Kopfs, plural Köpfe)
- (anatomy) head
- Er fiel die Treppe hinunter, als sie ihm ein Buch an den Kopf warf.
- He fell down the stairs when she threw a book at his head.
- crown, top
- heading, title
- person; individual; fellow (referring to one's intellect or mentality)
- Er ist ein heller Kopf.
- He's a bright fellow.
- (literally, “He is a bright head.”)
- (linguistics) head
- (numismatics) heads (side of a coin)
Declension
editSynonyms
edit- (head): Haupt
Hyponyms
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editRelated terms
editFurther reading
edit- “Kopf” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Kopf” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Kopf” in Duden online
- “Kopf” in OpenThesaurus.de
- Kopf on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Kopf”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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