Where does “tight-lippedness” come from?
tight-lippedness (English) comes from English tight-lipped, from English lipped, from English lip, from German lippe, from Yiddish ליפּ, from Middle High German lippe, from Old High German *lippa, from Proto-Germanic *lippjō.
tight-lippedness (English): The state of being tight-lipped
Definitions
- The state of being tight-lipped
Ancestry of “tight-lippedness”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | tight-lipped | Having the lips pressed together; Unwilling to... |
| 2 | English | lipped | Having a raised lip; Having some specific type of... |
| 3 | English | lip | Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the... |
| 4 | German | lippe | — |
| 5 | Yiddish | ליפּ | lip |
| 6 | Middle High German | lippe | — |
| 7 | Old High German | *lippa | — |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | *lippjō | — |