Where does “hennep” come from?

hennep (Middle Dutch) comes from Old Dutch hanap, from Proto-West Germanic hanapi, from Proto-Germanic hanapiz — hemp.

Ancestry of “hennep”, step by step

hennep traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old Dutch hanap

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Dutchhanap—
2Proto-West Germanichanapihemp
3Proto-Germanichanapizhemp

via Old Dutch henip

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Dutchhenip—
Every word from Proto-Germanic hanapiz →Every word from Proto-West Germanic hanapi →Every word from Old Dutch hanap →