Where does “Kneipchen” come from?

Kneipchen (German) comes from German Kneipe, from German kneipen, from Middle Low German knīpen, from Old Saxon knīpan, from Proto-West Germanic knīpan, from Proto-Germanic knīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European ǵneybʰ-.

Kneipchen (German): small pub, bar

Definitions

  1. small pub, bar

Ancestry of “Kneipchen”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanKneipepub, bar; a student’s cramped dwelling
2Germankneipenarchaic or dialectal Northern form of kneifen; to...
3Middle Low Germanknīpento squeeze
4Old Saxonknīpan—
5Proto-West Germanicknīpanto pinch
6Proto-Germanicknīpanąto pinch
7Proto-Indo-Europeanǵneybʰ-—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵneybʰ- →