Where does “chiffon” come from?
Chiffon comes from French chiffon, from French -on, from Ancient Greek -ον, from Ancient Greek -ος, from Latin -o, from Latin -us, from Latin cippus meaning a small post or stake.
chiffon (English): A sheer silk or rayon fabric; Any purely...
Definitions
- A sheer silk or rayon fabric; Any purely...
Ancestry of “chiffon”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | chiffon | rag; scrap |
| 2 | French | chiffe | rag; drip |
| 3 | Middle French | chiffe | cloth, old rag |
| 4 | Old French | chipe | rag; bit, scrap |
| 5 | Middle English | chip | fragment, worthless thing; chip, shard, fragment |
| 6 | Old English | ċipp | chip; small piece of wood; chip, splinter,... |
| 7 | Old English | ċippian | to cut; hew |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | kipp- | to chop; split; to cut; carve; hack; chop |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵey- | to split; divide; germinate; sprout; to split;... |
Words derived from “chiffon”