"stoupen" meaning in Middle English

See stoupen in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˈstuːpən/
Etymology: From Old English stūpian, from Proto-West Germanic *stūpōn, from Proto-Germanic *stūpōną. Etymology templates: {{inh|enm|ang|stūpian}} Old English stūpian, {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*stūpōn}} Proto-West Germanic *stūpōn, {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*stūpōną}} Proto-Germanic *stūpōną Head templates: {{head|enm|verb|head=}} stoupen, {{enm-verb|stem=stoup}} stoupen (third-person singular simple present stoupeth, present participle stoupende, stoupynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle stouped) Inflection templates: {{enm-conj-wk|stoup}} Forms: stoupeth [present, singular, third-person], stoupende [participle, present], stoupynge [participle, present], stouped [first-person, indicative, participle, past, singular, third-person], weak [table-tags], stoupen [infinitive], to stoupen [infinitive], stoupe [infinitive], stoupe [first-person, present, singular], stouped [first-person, past, singular], stoupede [first-person, past, singular], stoupest [present, second-person, singular], stoupedest [past, second-person, singular], stoupeth [present, singular, third-person], stouped [past, singular, third-person], stoupede [past, singular, third-person], stoupe [present, singular, subjunctive], stouped [past, singular, subjunctive], stoupede [past, singular, subjunctive], stoupe [imperative, present, singular], - [imperative, past, singular], stoupen [plural, present], stoupe [plural, present], stoupeden [past, plural], stouped [past, plural], stoupede [past, plural], stoupeth [imperative, plural, present], stoupe [imperative, plural, present], - [imperative, past, plural], stoupynge [participle, present], stoupende [participle, present], stouped [participle, past], ystouped [participle, past], stoup [alternative], stoupe [alternative], stowpe [alternative], stowppe [alternative], stupen [alternative, Early-Middle-English], stupin [alternative, Early-Middle-English], stoupi [alternative, Kent]
  1. To bend over; to stoop or hunch.
    Sense id: en-stoupen-enm-verb-Gv3KhBPB Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Body, Vision Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 31 18 34 17 Disambiguation of Body: 87 0 7 6 Disambiguation of Vision: 43 26 16 16
  2. To bend the head or eyes forwards; to slouch.
    Sense id: en-stoupen-enm-verb-on2x4kmk Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 31 18 34 17
  3. To be regularly or habitually diagonally tilted or bent.
    Sense id: en-stoupen-enm-verb-NRpYoTLD Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 31 18 34 17 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 21 11 58 10 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 18 9 65 8
  4. To become bent or inclined from a blow.
    Sense id: en-stoupen-enm-verb-uvmBLIyj Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 31 18 34 17

Alternative forms

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "obsolete stoup"
      ],
      "word": "stoop"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Middle Scots",
      "lang_code": "gmw-msc",
      "word": "stoup"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "stūpian"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English stūpian",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*stūpōn"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *stūpōn",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*stūpōną"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *stūpōną",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old English stūpian, from Proto-West Germanic *stūpōn, from Proto-Germanic *stūpōną.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stoupeth",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupende",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupynge",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stouped",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "indicative",
        "participle",
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "weak",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enm-conj-wk",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "to stoupen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stouped",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupede",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupedest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupeth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stouped",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupede",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stouped",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupede",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupeden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stouped",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupede",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupeth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupynge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stouped",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ystouped",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoup",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stowpe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stowppe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stupen",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stupin",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupi",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Kent"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "verb",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "stoupen",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "stem": "stoup"
      },
      "expansion": "stoupen (third-person singular simple present stoupeth, present participle stoupende, stoupynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle stouped)",
      "name": "enm-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "stoup"
      },
      "name": "enm-conj-wk"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "31 18 34 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "87 0 7 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "enm",
          "name": "Body",
          "orig": "enm:Body",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "43 26 16 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "enm",
          "name": "Vision",
          "orig": "enm:Vision",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To bend over; to stoop or hunch."
      ],
      "id": "en-stoupen-enm-verb-Gv3KhBPB",
      "links": [
        [
          "bend over",
          "bend over"
        ],
        [
          "stoop",
          "stoop"
        ],
        [
          "hunch",
          "hunch"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "31 18 34 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To bend the head or eyes forwards; to slouch."
      ],
      "id": "en-stoupen-enm-verb-on2x4kmk",
      "links": [
        [
          "head",
          "head"
        ],
        [
          "eyes",
          "eyes"
        ],
        [
          "forwards",
          "forwards"
        ],
        [
          "slouch",
          "slouch"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "31 18 34 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 11 58 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "18 9 65 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be regularly or habitually diagonally tilted or bent."
      ],
      "id": "en-stoupen-enm-verb-NRpYoTLD",
      "links": [
        [
          "regularly",
          "regularly"
        ],
        [
          "habitually",
          "habitually"
        ],
        [
          "diagonally",
          "diagonally"
        ],
        [
          "tilt",
          "tilt"
        ],
        [
          "bent",
          "bent"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "31 18 34 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become bent or inclined from a blow."
      ],
      "id": "en-stoupen-enm-verb-uvmBLIyj",
      "links": [
        [
          "bent",
          "bent"
        ],
        [
          "inclined",
          "inclined"
        ],
        [
          "blow",
          "blow"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈstuːpən/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "stoupen"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Middle English lemmas",
    "Middle English terms derived from Old English",
    "Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Middle English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Old English",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Middle English verbs",
    "Middle English weak verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "enm:Body",
    "enm:Vision"
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "obsolete stoup"
      ],
      "word": "stoop"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Middle Scots",
      "lang_code": "gmw-msc",
      "word": "stoup"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "stūpian"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English stūpian",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*stūpōn"
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
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      },
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      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old English stūpian, from Proto-West Germanic *stūpōn, from Proto-Germanic *stūpōną.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stoupeth",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupende",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupynge",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stouped",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "indicative",
        "participle",
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "weak",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enm-conj-wk",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "to stoupen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stouped",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupede",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupedest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupeth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stouped",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupede",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stouped",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupede",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupeden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stouped",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupede",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupeth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupynge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stouped",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ystouped",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoup",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stowpe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stowppe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stupen",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stupin",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stoupi",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Kent"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "verb",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "stoupen",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "stem": "stoup"
      },
      "expansion": "stoupen (third-person singular simple present stoupeth, present participle stoupende, stoupynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle stouped)",
      "name": "enm-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "stoup"
      },
      "name": "enm-conj-wk"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To bend over; to stoop or hunch."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bend over",
          "bend over"
        ],
        [
          "stoop",
          "stoop"
        ],
        [
          "hunch",
          "hunch"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To bend the head or eyes forwards; to slouch."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "head",
          "head"
        ],
        [
          "eyes",
          "eyes"
        ],
        [
          "forwards",
          "forwards"
        ],
        [
          "slouch",
          "slouch"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To be regularly or habitually diagonally tilted or bent."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "regularly",
          "regularly"
        ],
        [
          "habitually",
          "habitually"
        ],
        [
          "diagonally",
          "diagonally"
        ],
        [
          "tilt",
          "tilt"
        ],
        [
          "bent",
          "bent"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To become bent or inclined from a blow."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bent",
          "bent"
        ],
        [
          "inclined",
          "inclined"
        ],
        [
          "blow",
          "blow"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈstuːpən/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "stoupen"
}

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