The story
- Latin · derived fromcippus“post”
- Old High German · derived fromkipfa
- German · borrowed fromKipfel
- English todaykipfel
From German Kipfel, diminutive of Kipf (“wagon post”), from Old High German kipfa, chipf, from Latin cippus (“post”).
Words from the same roots
Latincippus all →
kypecippus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.