Where does “chips” come from?
Chips comes from Middle English chip, from Old English ċipp and ċippian, from Latin cippus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ǵey-.
chips (English): Third-person singular simple present indicative...
Definitions
- Third-person singular simple present indicative...
Ancestry of “chips”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | chip | A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid... |
| 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;... |