Etymology

kipe

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Today it means: An osier basket used for catching fish. Full definition →

Middle English kipe ← Old English cȳpe ← Proto-Germanic *kipǭ
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kipe · noun1

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*gey-“to bend, twist”
  2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*kipǭ
  3. Old English · inherited fromcȳpe
  4. Middle English · inherited fromkipe
  5. English todaykipe

From Middle English kipe, kype, from Old English cȳpe, cȳpa (“basket”), from Proto-Germanic *kipǭ, *kippǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gey- (“to bend, twist”). Akin to Middle Low German kīpe ("basket"; > German Low German Kiep, Kiepke (“basket”), German Kiepe (“carrying basket”)), Norwegian kaup (“wooden box; crate”).

kipe · verb2

Perhaps from dialectal kip (“to snatch”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishcȳpe all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.