neep

From Middle English neep, from Old English nǣp (“turnip, rape”), borrowed from Latin nāpus. Compare Icelandic næpa (“turnip”).

Cognate with English turnip.

neep (plural neeps)

1. (chiefly Scotland) The swede (rutabaga), called "turnip" in Scotland.
   • 1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 494:

     Poor Mr Piddle with his long think neck and his long thin head, as bald as a neep and something the shape […]

• peen, pene, pene-

• nepe

From Old English nǣp, from Latin nāpus, from Ancient Greek νᾶπυ (nâpu).

• IPA^(key): /neːp/

neep (plural nepes)

1. turnip

• English: neep
• Scots: neep
• Yola: neape
• → Welsh: maip
• ⇒ English: turnip (see there for further descendants)

• “nẹ̄p, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-1-7.