Where does “lipstick” come from?
lipstick (Dutch) comes from English lipstick, from English lip, from German lippe, from Yiddish ליפּ, from Middle High German lippe, from Old High German *lippa, from Proto-Germanic *lippjō.
lipstick (Dutch): lipstick
Ancestry of “lipstick”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | lipstick | Makeup for the lips; A stick of this make-up; To... |
| 2 | English | lip | Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the... |
| 3 | German | lippe | — |
| 4 | Yiddish | ליפּ | lip |
| 5 | Middle High German | lippe | — |
| 6 | Old High German | *lippa | — |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | *lippjō | — |