alp

Etymology

Late Middle English, back-formation from alps pl, via French from Latin Alpes (“high mountains, especially those of Switzerland”). Compare Old Saxon elbon (“Alps”), Old High German Alpūn (“Alps”); Old High German alba (“alp, mountain”)).

noun

  1. A very high mountain. Specifically, one of the Alps, the highest chain of mountains in Europe.
  2. An alpine meadow
    At the alp of Khyarkuti, a wide flat at the junction of several glens[…] 1942, Marco Pallis, Peaks and Lamas, page 54

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