Where does “groentechips” come from?
groentechips (Dutch) comes from Dutch chips, from English chips, from English chip, from Middle English chip, from Old English ċipp, from Old English ċippian, from Proto-Germanic kipp-, from Proto-Indo-European ǵey- — to split; divide; germinate; sprout; to split;...
groentechips (Dutch): vegetable chips
Definitions
- vegetable chips
Ancestry of “groentechips”, step by step
groentechips traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch chips
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | chips | potato chips, crisps; plural of chip; shoot,... |
| 2 | English | chips | Third-person singular simple present indicative... |
| 3 | English | chip | A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid... |
| 4 | Middle English | chip | fragment, worthless thing; chip, shard, fragment |
| 5 | Old English | ċipp | chip; small piece of wood; chip, splinter,... |
| 6 | Old English | ċippian | to cut; hew |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | kipp- | to chop; split; to cut; carve; hack; chop |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵey- | to split; divide; germinate; sprout; to split;... |
via Dutch groente
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | groente | Vegetables; A vegetable |
| 2 | Dutch | groen | green; green, relating to green parties or green... |
| 3 | Middle Dutch | groene | green; unripe, young |
| 4 | Old Dutch | gruoni | green |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | grōnī | green |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | grōniz | green |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰreh₁- | to become green, grow; to grow; to green, to grow |