Where does “piippaus” come from?

piippaus (Finnish) comes from Finnish piipata, from Finnish piip, from Proto-West Germanic *pīpā, from Vulgar Latin pipa, from Latin pipo — I pip, peep.

piippaus (Finnish): beep, pip

Definitions

  1. beep, pip

Ancestry of “piippaus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishpiipataTo beep, tweet
2Finnishpiipbeep; meep
3Proto-West Germanic*pīpāflute
4Vulgar Latinpipapipe
5LatinpipoI pip, peep
Every word from Latin pipo