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heap

Pronunciation: /xæ͜ɑːp/

“heap” is an Old English word. Its 2 meanings in English:

noun

  1. group
  2. heap

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *haup. Cognate with Old Frisian hāp, Old Saxon hōp, Old High German houf. Old Norse hópr differs from the expected form *haupr because it is a borrowing from Middle Low German.

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