Where does “tinsnips” come from?

tinsnips (English) comes from English tin, from Middle English tin, from Old English tin, from Proto-West Germanic *tin, from Proto-Germanic tiną, from Proto-Indo-European dinom.

tinsnips (English): A kind of snips resembling scissors

Definitions

  1. A kind of snips resembling scissors

Ancestry of “tinsnips”, step by step

tinsnips traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English tin

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishtinA malleable, ductile, metallic element, resistant...
2Middle EnglishtinAlternative form of þin; tin
3Old Englishtintin
4Proto-West Germanic*tintin metal
5Proto-Germanictinątin
6Proto-Indo-Europeandinom—

via English snips

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishsnipsplural of snip; shears; hand tools used to cut...
2EnglishsnipTo cut with short sharp actions, as with...
3Dutchsnippenplural of snip; to snip; shred; to chop
Every word from Proto-Indo-European dinom →Every word from Proto-Germanic tiną →Every word from Proto-West Germanic *tin →