HEAP - Definition & Meaning for Kids
Meaning 1
Part of speech: Verb
bestow in large quantities
Example: He heaped him with work; She heaped scorn upon him
Categories: Give
Meaning 2
Part of speech: Verb
fill to overflow
Example: heap the platter with potatoes
Categories: Fill, Fill up, Make full
Synonyms
Great deal, Tidy sum, Sight, Mickle, Heap
🌱 Word Origin (Etymology)
The word "heap" comes from Proto-Indo-European *koupos. It started in Proto-Germanic *haupaz. Then it appeared in Proto-West Germanic *haup. Later, people used it in Old English hēap. After that, it was Middle English heep. Many other languages have similar words:.
- Dutch: hoop
- German Low German: Hupen
- German: Haufen
- Lithuanian: kaũpas
- Albanian: qipi
- Avestan: 𐬐𐬂𐬟𐬀
🧩 Fun Fact
Each language in this chain added phonetic changes that transformed the original sound.