sup
Part of speech: verb
noun
intj
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sew-?
Proto-Indo-European *sewH-
Proto-Indo-European *peh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *su(H)ph₃néh₂-der.?
Proto-Germanic *suppōną
Proto-Germanic *sūpaną
Proto-West Germanic *sūpan
Old English sūpan
Middle English soupen
English sup
The verb is from Middle English soupen, from Old English sūpan (“to sip, drink, taste”), from Proto-Germanic *sūpaną (compare Dutch zuipen (“to drink, tipple, booze”), German saufen (“to drink, booze”), Swedish supa (“to drink, swallow”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sub-, compare Sanskrit सूप (sū́pa, “soup, broth”), from *sewe (“to take liquid”). More at suck.
The noun is from the verb. There is no evidence of continuity with Old English supa. Compare Middle English soupe, from Old English sūpe, which has the same meaning as Middle English sope (“a mouthful or small amount of drink”), from Old English sopa, whence sop.
Base: up
Affixes: s-
Inflected forms:
form: sups
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: supping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: supped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: supped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: soup
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: sups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: soup
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ssup
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: 'sup
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: s'up
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: zup
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon.
pos: verb
examples: There I'll sup / Balm and nectar in my cup.
We stood upon the forehead of the hills, / And lifted up our hearts in prayer; / And as we halted, reverent, / Meseemed that Nature o’er us bent, / That she did bid us sup / From bread she gave and from her cup.
And as she supped her tea she smiled discreetly at him over the brim.
On market days the farmers would come in before going home - Tysons and Lindsays and Birketts and Longmires and Boows and Dawsons - and their dogs would lie in heaps on the flags while they themselves supped Gerald's ale.
gloss: A sip; a small amount, of food or drink, water or rain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Not a sup will I swallow, nor a bit will I bite, till Burd Ellen is set free.
Is it stoppin' there you'd be till every sup of the say's dhrained out on us to beyant the King Pharaoh's Islands?
“Then, who,” the sick man meekly said, / “Shall heal the sick and hide the dead?— / “Snatch the despairer’s poisoned cup; / Clothe shame, and give the outcast sup?⁠— / “Lighten, if only by a hair, / The load of human pain and care?”
We’re sisters in a sort and I’ll take Louie home with me and give her sup and shelter.
... an' we'll bathe them eyes of yours with a sup of rain water, the way when you go indoors ne'er a one will see there's been a ha'porth the matter.
A long, long sup of beer flowed gratefully down his gullet.
The hands touch B upon the head, give him sup from a cup and wipe his brow with a cloth, and finally embrace him as he slumps back down upon his desk.
'Wouldn't the fields be glad of a sup of rain.' 'Won't we have the rain for long enough.'
gloss: what's up (either as a greeting or actual question)
pos: intj
tags: slang
examples: — Sup?
— Not much.
gloss: Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of an up quark.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
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