TOPEE
s. A hat, Hind. ṭopī . This is sometimes referred to Port. topo , 'the top' (also tope , 'a top-knot,' and topete , a 'toupee'), which is probably identical with English and Dutch top , L. German topp , Fr. topet , &c. But there is also a simpler Hind. word ṭop , for a helmet or hat, and the quotation from the Roteiro … read more
1498.“In the vocabulary ("Este he a linguajem de Calicut") we have: "barrete (i.e. a cap): tupy."—Roteiro, 118. The following expression again, in the same work, seems to be Portuguese, …”