Etymology

hp

H4P3
Japanese HP ← English home page
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The story

  1. English · derived fromhome page
  2. Japanese · borrowed fromHP“home page”
  3. English todayHP

Sense "home page" is a borrowing from Japanese HP (HP, “home page”), from English home page.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.