Where does “chipping” come from?
Chipping comes from Middle English and Old English -ing (a suffix forming nouns and verbs) combined with Old English chip, ultimately from Latin cippus and Proto-Indo-European ǵey-.
chipping (English): present participle of chip; A fragment broken off...
Definitions
- present participle of chip; A fragment broken off...
Ancestry of “chipping”, step by step
chipping traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via English Chip
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Chip | A diminutive of the male given names Christopher and Charles |
| 2 | Middle English | chip | fragment, worthless thing; chip, shard, fragment |
| 3 | Old English | ċipp | chip; small piece of wood; chip, splinter,... |
| 4 | Old English | ċippian | to cut; hew |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | kipp- | to chop; split; to cut; carve; hack; chop |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵey- | to split; divide; germinate; sprout; to split;... |
via Middle English chippyng
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | chippyng | — |
via Old English ċīeping
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old English | ċīeping | bargaining, setting a price, marketing, commerce |