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Where does “clapa” come from?

clapa (French) comes from French claper, from Catalan clapa — spot.

clapa (French): third-person singular past historic of claper

Definitions

  1. third-person singular past historic of claper

Ancestry of “clapa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchclaperto clap; to clack; to eat
2Catalanclapaspot
Every word from Catalan clapa →