Etymology: In sense 1, < Old French coup, cop, colp blow: see coup n.³ (The spelling caupe in Destr. Troy is not satisfactorily explained, but it varies with coupe : compare cope v.²) Sense 2 may be the same word, connected by the notion of ‘a shock that overturns’, but it tends, at least in modern use, to the status of a verbal derivative. The remaining senses are almost certainly of later formation from the verb (coup v.³).

Etymology: perhaps the same word as coop n.¹ (formerly coupe , coup ). In German, as is pointed out by Hildebrand (in Grimm), kiepe , properly a basket, is also applied in Saxony to a chest or box, and to a box-cart. We might suppose this word to be short for coup-cart n. (now taken in the sense of a cart that can be tilted), but the simple word appears much earlier than the compound.

Etymology: French coup /ku/ blow, stroke < Old French colp , cop = Provençal colp , cop , Italian colpo < late Latin colpus (Salic Law), colapus (Law of the Alemanns) blow, stroke, for Latin colaphus blow with the fist, cuff, < Greek κόλαϕος cuff, buffet. Adopted in Middle English in a literal sense, and naturalized in pronunciation (see coup n.¹); re-introduced in the 18th cent. in figurative sense, as a non-naturalized word, with modern French pronunciation (except that in English the vowel is made long); it also occurs in many French phrases and expressions borrowed in English.

Etymology: < Old Norse kaup-a to buy, bargain, barter, exchange, = Gothic kaupôn to traffic, trade, buy and sell, Old Saxon côpôn , Old High German choufôn , Old English céapian : see cheap v. A northern word, the senses of which run parallel to those of the cognate cope v.³ from Low German, of which it is often viewed as a mere dialectal variant.

Etymology: < French couper to cut: compare cope v.⁴ a doublet of this.

Etymology: probably originally the same word as cope v.² (which had variant forms coupe , caupe ). From sense 1, we pass easily to that of ‘upset or overturn with a shock or impact’, and so to ‘upset, overturn, tilt’ generally; compare the sense history of tilt v.¹