The story
- Latin · derived fromcippus“stake, post, boundary marker”
- Middle Low German · derived fromkippe“point, tip”
- Scots · derived fromkip, kipp“something beaked or hooked”
- English todaykype
From Scots kip, kipp (“something beaked or hooked”); perhaps related to Middle Low German kippe (“point, tip”), German Kippe (“stub”), both from Latin cippus (“stake, post, boundary marker”).
Words from the same roots
Latincippus all →
cippuskipfel
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.