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dip

Today it means: A lower section of a road or geological feature. Full definition →

Middle English dippen ← Old English dyppan ← Proto-West Germanic *duppjan

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dip · noun, verb¹

Proto-Germanic · inherited from*dupjaną
Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*duppjan
Old English · inherited fromdyppan
Middle English · inherited fromdippen
English todaydip

From Middle English dippen, from Old English dyppan, from Proto-West Germanic *duppjan, from Proto-Germanic *dupjaną; see *daupijaną (“to dip”). Related to deep.

dip · noun²

Back-formation from dippy.

dip · noun³

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