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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

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative...

Ancestry of “chips”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishchipA small piece broken from a larger piece of solid...
2Middle Englishchipfragment, worthless thing; chip, shard, fragment
3Old Englishċippchip; small piece of wood; chip, splinter,...
4Old Englishċippianto cut; hew
5Proto-Germanickipp-to chop; split; to cut; carve; hack; chop
6Proto-Indo-Europeanǵey-to split; divide; germinate; sprout; to split;...

Words derived from “chips”

  • чипс
  • chips
  • chips
  • chipsi
  • sipsi
  • ĉipso
  • chips
  • chips
  • chips
  • čips
  • čipsy
  • צ׳יפס
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