epop, opop

    epop, opop

    English meaning: a kind of exclamation

    Deutsche Übersetzung: Ruf of Wiedehopfs

    Material: Arm. popop, Pers. pūpū “hoopoe”; Gk. ἐποποῖ ποποπό ‘shout, call of hoopoe”, ἔποψ, -οπος “hoopoe”, ἔπωπα ἀλεκτρυόνα ἄγριονHes. (-ωπ- probably through support in -ωψ); ἄπαφός ἔποψ, τὸ ὄρνεον (assimilated from *επαφός, which is reshuffled in ending after animal names suffix –αφος = Alb. kafshë (*–αφος, *haphos) “animal”); Lat. upupa “hoopoe”; N.Ger. Hupphupp under likewise; Ger. Wiedehopf, O.H.G. wituhopfo, O.S. widohoppa is a reinterpretation after Gmc. widu- (IE u̯idhu-) “tree, wood” and M.H.G. hopfen “hũpfen”; Ltv. puppukis “hoopoe”. similar, but not reduplicated, O.Sor. hupak, Pol. hupek “hoopoe”, O.Sor. hupać “cry like a hoopoe”, compare also more in general slovak. húpati “cry”, Russ. old chupsti sja “ vaunt, boast “.

    References: WP. I 123 f., Kluge11 S. 689.