different between koppie vs kopje

English

Noun

koppie (plural koppies)

1. Alternative form of kopje

Afrikaans

Noun

koppie (plural koppies, diminutive koppietjie)

1. cup
2. koppie, hillock or knoll
3. Diminutive of kop

Descendants

• ? Sotho: kopi

English

Alternative forms

• koppie

Etymology

From (South African) Dutch kopje, diminutive of kop (“head”).

Noun

kopje (plural kopjes)

1. (South Africa) A small hill or mound (especially on the African veld).
   • 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther 1974, p. 8:

     Martha looked over a mile or so of bush to a strip of pink ploughed land; […] and then, ridge after ridge, fold after fold, the bush stretched to a line of blue kopjes.

   • 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage 2000, p. 72:

     On the koppie behind the village, the unsightly red-and-white skeleton of an FM tower.

References

• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition (1997)

Afrikaans

Noun

kopje (plural kopjes)

1. (archaic) Alternative form of koppie

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?p.j?/

Noun

kopje n (plural kopjes)

1. Diminutive of kop

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

• ko?e (obsolete)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kop?je. Cognate with Upper Sorbian kopjo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?p??/, [?k?p??]

Noun

kopje n (diminutive kopjecko)

1. spear, javelin, lance, pike

Inflection

Further reading

• ko?e in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• kopje in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kop?je.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kò?pj?/

Noun

k??pje n

1. javelin

Inflection

Further reading

• “kopje”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran