Where does “bekneipen” come from?

bekneipen (German) comes 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-.

bekneipen (German): to get drunk

Definitions

  1. to get drunk

Ancestry of “bekneipen”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germankneipenarchaic or dialectal Northern form of kneifen; to...
2Middle Low Germanknīpento squeeze
3Old Saxonknīpan—
4Proto-West Germanicknīpanto pinch
5Proto-Germanicknīpanąto pinch
6Proto-Indo-Europeanǵneybʰ-—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵneybʰ- →