Alp
/ælp/noun
A high mountain, especially in the Alps, or a mountain pasture in some regional English usage.
Did you know?English "Alp" comes through Latin and French from a very old Alpine place-name word, and the same root likely helped shape the names of the Alps and related mountain terms across Europe.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*albʰós
“white, bright”
Proto-Celtic
PCelt
*alβios
“white land or hill”
Latin
Latin
Alpes
“the Alps, the white mountains”
Old French
OF
alpe
“high mountain pasture; mountain”
Middle English
English
alp
“a mountain or high pasture”
Modern English
English
alp
“a high mountain, especially in the Alps, or a mountain pasture”