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Alp m (strong, genitive Alps or Alpes, plural Alpe)

  1. Alternative form of Alb (“creature that sits on one's chest at night, or a nightmare supposedly caused by such a creature”)

    • 1852, Karl Marx, Der achtzehnte Brumaire des Louis Bonaparte [The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon], section 115:

      Die Tradition aller toten Geschlechter lastet wie ein Alp auf dem Gehirne der Lebenden.

      The traditions of every dead generation weigh like a nightmare upon the brains of the living.

Alp

  1. genitive plural of Alpa
Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
Alp nAlp hAlp not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

From alp (“brave, hero”).

Alp

  1. a male given name from Proto-Turkic

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آلپ (Alp), from French Alpes.

Alp

  1. the Alps
    Synonym: Alpler