Where does “top” come from?

top (Slovene) comes from Ottoman Turkish طوپ, from Old Turkic tōp.

top (Slovene): blunt; cannon

Definitions

  1. blunt; cannon

Ancestry of “top”, step by step

top traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Ottoman Turkish طوپ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ottoman Turkishطوپball; knob; cannon
2Old Turkictōp—

via Proto-Slavic tǫpъ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Slavictǫpъdull, blunt
Every word from Old Turkic tōp →Every word from Ottoman Turkish طوپ →