Where does “ĉipa” come from?
ĉipa (Esperanto) comes from Ido chipa, from English cheap, from Middle English chep, from Old English cēap, from Proto-Germanic kaupōną, from Proto-Germanic kaupô, from Latin caupo, from Proto-Indo-European kaup-.
ĉipa (Esperanto): cheap; of or relating to computer chips
Definitions
- cheap; of or relating to computer chips
Ancestry of “ĉipa”, step by step
ĉipa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Ido chipa
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ido | chipa | cheap |
| 2 | English | cheap | Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering; A market;... |
| 3 | Middle English | chep | — |
| 4 | Old English | cēap | cattle, purchase, sale, traffic, business,... |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | kaupōną | to buy; trade |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | kaupô | innkeeper; merchant |
| 7 | Latin | caupo | Tradesman; Innkeeper, shopkeeper |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kaup- | — |
via Esperanto ĉipo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esperanto | ĉipo | a chip |
| 2 | English | Chip | A diminutive of the male given names Christopher and Charles |
| 3 | Middle English | chip | fragment, worthless thing; chip, shard, fragment |
| 4 | Old English | ċipp | chip; small piece of wood; chip, splinter,... |
| 5 | Old English | ċippian | to cut; hew |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | kipp- | to chop; split; to cut; carve; hack; chop |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵey- | to split; divide; germinate; sprout; to split;... |