Etymology

snappling

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Today it means: The sport or activity of abseiling. Full definition →

Hebrew סנפלינג ← English snap-link
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The story

  1. English · derived fromsnap-link
  2. Hebrew · borrowed fromסנפלינג
  3. English todaysnappling

Apparently from Hebrew סנפלינג, from English snap-link reinterpreted as a verb form with -ing.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.