Etymology

thible

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Today it means: A stick for stirring food. Full definition →

Northern Middle English thyvelle ← Old English þȳfel
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromþȳfel“thicket”
  2. Northern Middle English · inherited fromthyvelle
  3. English todaythible

Inherited from Northern Middle English thyvelle, perhaps from Old English þȳfel (“thicket”) through an intermediate sense of "whisk".

Words from the same roots

Old Englishþȳfel all →

thivel

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.