guimpe

The story

1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*-ilaz
2. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*wimb-
3. Proto-Germanic · derived from*wimpilaz
4. Frankish · derived from*wimpil
5. Old French · derived fromguimple“wimple”
6. Middle French · derived fromguimpe
7. French · borrowed fromguimpe
8. English todayguimpe

From French guimpe, from Middle French guimpe, from Old French guimple (“wimple”), from Frankish *wimpil, *wimpila (“head scarf”), from Proto-Germanic *wimpilaz, from *wīpaną ("to wind, sling, garland, swing"; from Proto-Indo-European *wimb-, *weyb- (“to turn, rotate”)) + Proto-Germanic *-ilaz (instrumental suffix). Cognate with Old High German wimpal and winfila (“head scarf”), Middle Dutch wumpel (“cap”), Old English wimpel, winpel (“wimple”), Old Norse vimpill (“hood, veil”). Also influenced by Old French guimpre (“a kind of trimming”), from the same Germanic source. More at wimple.

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