Where does “bagpipe” come from?
Bagpipe comes from English bagpipe, ultimately deriving through repeated English attestations of the same term describing a musical instrument with an air-filled bag and pipes.
bagpipe (English): singular of bagpipes; attributive form of...
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- singular of bagpipes; attributive form of...
Ancestry of “bagpipe”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | bagpipe | bagpipes |
| 2 | Middle English | pīpe | A pipe; a piece of tubing used as a channel (often for fluids) |
| 3 | Middle English | pipen | To use a pipe or similar musical instrument; to... |
| 4 | Old English | pīpian | to pipe |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | pīpan | to peep, to chirp, to squeak |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | pīpaną | To chirp or pipe like a bird or rodent; To talk... |
| 7 | Latin | pipo | I pip, peep |