loope

loope (plural loopes)

1. Obsolete form of loop.
   • quoted in 1968, Walter E. Minchinton, Essays in Agrarian History (volume 1, page 170)

     […] and he that holds the plow drives them with two whip cords fastened to the fore horses and hung by two loopes upon each of his plough handles […]

• laafe (southern Moselle Franconian)
• laufe, loufe (Kölsch; Westerwald)
• loofe (Ripuarian; northern Moselle Franconian)

A relict from the older Low Franconian dialect around Düsseldorf, thus from Old Dutch lōpan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaupan. The city and its south-western periphery underwent a process of Ripuarianisation, chiefly during the 19th century.

• IPA^(key): /loːpə/

loope (third-person singular present lööp, past tense leep, past participle jeloope)

1. (northernmost Ripuarian) to walk; to go; to run (move on foot, either at a normal or an increased speed)
   • 1956, “De Retematäng”‎performed by Jupp Schäfers:

     Mir sinn us de alde Stadt, us de Retematäng.
     Mir sprääche richtig Platt un loope op de Häng.

     We are from the old city, from the “rue de matin”.
     We speak the original dialect and we walk on our hands.

loope ɗe

1. (Adamawa) clay, mud

• Tourneux, Henry, Daïrou, Yaya (1998) Dictionnaire peul de l'agriculture et de la nature (Diamaré, Cameroun), suivi d'un index français-fulfulde‎ (in French), Paris: Karthala, →ISBN, retrieved 24 April 2023

loope

1. Alternative spelling of lope