The story
- Quechua · derived fromyapa“addition, increase, supplement; lagniappe”
- Spanish · derived fromla ñapa
- Louisiana French · borrowed fromlagniappe
- English todaylagniappe
Borrowed from Louisiana French lagniappe, from Spanish la ñapa, a variant of yapa (“small gift or additional quantity given to a valued customer”), from Quechua yapa (“addition, increase, supplement; lagniappe”), yapay (“to add, to increase”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.