peper

From Middle Dutch peper, from Old Dutch *pipar, *pepar, from Proto-West Germanic *pipar, from Latin piper, from Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi), from an Indo-Aryan language.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeː.pər/

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• Homophone: paper
• Hyphenation: pe‧per
• Rhymes: -eːpər

peper m (plural pepers, diminutive pepertje n)

1. pepper (Piper nigrum or the spice obtained from its berries)
2. pepper (Capsicum plants or their fruit used as vegetable or spice)

• Afrikaans: peper
• Negerhollands: pepper
• → Aukan: pepee
• → Munsee: piipel
• → Papiamentu: peper
• → Saramaccan: pepè
• → Unami: pèpël

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• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “peper”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

• peper on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

• reppe

• pepere, pepir, pepire, pepper, pepre, pepur, pepyr, piper, pipere, pipor, pyper

Inherited from Old English pipor, piper, from West Germanic, from Latin piper, from Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi), from Indo-Aryan.

Forms with /ɛ/ probably represent unattested Old English *peopor, while the absence of open-syllable lengthening is due to influence from the Old English inflected forms pipore, pipores and the compounds peper corn, peperquerne, where it would be inhibited by trisyllabic shortening.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛpər/, /ˈpipər/

peper (uncountable)

1. pepper (a spice made from the fruit of the plant Piper nigrum)
2. (rare) The plant that produces the fruit required to make pepper; the pepper plant.
3. (rare) A spicy or bitter concoction.

• peper corn
• peperquerne

• English: pepper (see there for further descendants)
• Middle Scots: peper, pepar, pepir
  • Scots: pepper
• Yola: pipper

• “peper, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 24 July 2018.