tapor

tapor

1. axe

• Robert Rucker, Anjam Organised Phonology Data (2000), p. 2

No cognates exist in other Germanic languages: perhaps borrowed from Latin papyrus (via an unattested form *papur), which in later use also meant ‘candle-wick’ (compare Spanish pabilo (“candlewick”)). In early Middle English glossaries, Latin papyrus was glossed as taper. See also German Kerze (“candle”), ultimately from Greek χαρτης (chartis, “papyrus”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑpor/

tapor m (nominative plural taporas)

1. taper

• English: taper