Etymology

frappé

Today it means: A frozen fruit-flavoured dessert or appetizer. Full definition →

French frappé ← Old French fraper ← Proto-Germanic *hrappijaną
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*krob
  2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*hrappijaną“to hurry”
  3. Old French · derived fromfraper
  4. French · borrowed fromfrappé
  5. English todayfrappé

Borrowed from French frappé, past participle of frapper (“to hit, strike”), from Old French fraper, from Old Low Franconian *hrappan 'to jerk, snatch', from Proto-Germanic *hrappijaną (“to hurry”), from *hrapaz, from Proto-Indo-European *krob.

Words from the same roots

Frenchfrappé all →

frappe

Old Frenchfraper all →

frap

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.