Etymology

tampion

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Today it means: A wooden plug, or a metal or canvas cover, for the muzzle of a gun, cannon, or other piece of ordnance when not in use; a stopper; a bung. Full definition →

Middle English tampioun ← Old French tampon ← Frankish *tappō
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*tappô
  2. Frankish · derived from*tappō
  3. Old French · derived fromtampon
  4. Middle English · inherited fromtampioun
  5. English todaytampion

From Middle English tampioun, variant of tampon, from Old French tampon, a nasalised form of tapon, from Frankish *tappō, from Proto-Germanic *tappô. More at tampon.

Words from the same roots

Frankish*tappō all →

tampon

Proto-Germanic*tappô all →

tapastamponZapf

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.