cup
n.Etymology
A common Germanic borrowing from Late Latin cuppa ('drinking vessel'), itself a variant of classical cūpa ('tub, cask') — the same root that gives us cooper, the cask-maker. From household object to liturgical chalice to the Watts dictionary game, the word has carried the weight of metaphor as easily as liquid.
Definitions
a unit of measure (~240 ml in US cooking)
A standard volumetric unit in domestic cooking, equal to half a US pint.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at cup. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
From the cup we drink — from drink we name water, the substance — from water we trace the river, the path — from the river we draw the fish, what swims there — from fish we get food, what we live on — from food we set the table — on the table we lay the dish — and in the dish, again, a cup. Each word leans on the next; the dictionary, asked enough times, hands you back where you started.
8 hops · closes at cup
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.