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Loup

//luːp// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The extinct Algonquian language varieties once spoken in colonial New England.
Noun
  1. 1
    A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the trip hammer or rolls.

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Luppe (“a lump of iron”).

Etymology 2

From French loup (“wolf”): the language was attested in a notebook titled Mots loups ("wolf words") compiled by Jean-Claude Mathevet, a priest who worked among the Algonquians.

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