Where does “nippertje” come from?
nippertje (Dutch) comes from Dutch nipper, from Dutch nippen, from Dutch nijpen, from Middle Dutch nipen, from Old Dutch nīpen, from Proto-Germanic *hnīpan, from Proto-Germanic hnīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European kneybʰ-.
nippertje (Dutch): the very last moment
Ancestry of “nippertje”, step by step