tæppere

Old English

Etymology

tæppa +‎ -ere

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtæp.pe.re/

Noun

tæppere m

tavern keeper, bartender
wine seller

Declension

Declension of tæppere (strong ja-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	tappere	tapperas
accusative	tappere	tapperas
genitive	tapperes	tappera
dative	tappere	tapperum

Derived terms

tæppestre (“barmaid”)
wīntæppere (“wine tapper”)

Related terms

tæppa (“tap, spigot”)
tæppian (“to open a cask, furnish with a tap”)

Descendants

English: tapper

References

John R. Clark Hall (1916), “tæppere”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “tæppere”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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