The story
- Proto-Germanic · derived from*wīpaną“to wind, wrap”
- Frankish · derived from*wīpan“to wind, wrap”
- French · borrowed fromguipure
- English todayguipure
Borrowed from French guipure, from guiper (“to cover with silk”), ultimately borrowed from Frankish *wīpan (“to wind, wrap”), from Proto-Germanic *wīpaną (“to wind, wrap”). Related to English wimple.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.