Where does “lip” come from?

Lip comes from Middle English lippe, from Old English lippa, from Proto-Germanic lipjô, from Proto-Indo-European leb-.

lip (English): Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the...

Definitions

  1. Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the...

Ancestry of “lip”, step by step

lip traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German lippe

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanlippelip
2Yiddishליפּlip
3Middle High Germanlippe—
4Old High German*lippa—
5Proto-Germanic*lippjō—

via Middle English lippe

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishlippelip
2Old Englishlippalip

Words derived from “lip”

Every word from Proto-Germanic *lippjō →Every word from Old High German *lippa →Every word from Middle High German lippe →