trip · noun, verb, adjective1
- Middle Dutch · derived fromtrippen“to skip, trip, hop, stamp, trample”
- Old French · derived fromtriper“to hop or dance around, strike with the feet”
- Middle English · derived fromtrippen“tread or step lightly and nimbly, skip, dance”
- English todaytrip
From Middle English trippen (“tread or step lightly and nimbly, skip, dance”), perhaps from Old French triper (“to hop or dance around, strike with the feet”), from a Frankish source; or alternatively from Middle Dutch trippen (“to skip, trip, hop, stamp, trample”) (> Modern Dutch trippelen (“to toddle, patter, trip”)). Akin to Middle Low German trippen ( > Danish trippe (“to trip”), Swedish trippa (“to mince, trip”)), West Frisian tripje (“to toddle, trip”), German trippeln (“to scurry”), Old English treppan (“to trample, tread”). Related also to trap, tramp.
trip · noun2
- Old French · derived fromtrippe
- Middle English · inherited fromtryppe
- English todaytrip
From Middle English tryppe, from Old French trippe. Possibly related to troop.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.