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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

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ottoman Turkishطوپball; knob; cannon
2Old Turkictōp—
Every word from Old Turkic tōp →