Where does “piepstem” come from?

piepstem (Dutch) comes from Dutch piep, from Dutch piepen, from Middle Dutch pipen, from Old Dutch pīpan, from Proto-West Germanic pīpan, from Proto-Germanic pīpaną, from Latin pipo — I pip, peep.

piepstem (Dutch): a squeaky voice

Definitions

  1. a squeaky voice

Ancestry of “piepstem”, step by step

piepstem traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Dutch piep

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dutchpiepa peep, a squeak
2Dutchpiepento squeak, squeal
3Middle Dutchpipento chirp, to peep; to squeak; to yelp
4Old Dutchpīpanto chirp, to peep (of birds)
5Proto-West Germanicpīpanto peep, to chirp, to squeak
6Proto-GermanicpīpanąTo chirp or pipe like a bird or rodent; To talk...
7LatinpipoI pip, peep

via Dutch stem

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dutchstemvoice, sound made by the mouth using airflow; the...
2Middle Dutchstemme
3Old Dutchstemmavoice
4Proto-West Germanic*stebnuvoice
5Proto-Germanicstebnōvoice; sound
6Proto-Indo-Europeanstomen-mouth, muzzle
Every word from Latin pipo
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