Where does “Laschpapia” come from?

Laschpapia (Plautdietsch) comes from Latin Papia, from Portuguese papear, from Portuguese papo, from Portuguese papar, from Old Portuguese papar, from Latin pappo — I eat, eat pap.

Laschpapia (Plautdietsch): blotting paper

Definitions

  1. blotting paper

Ancestry of “Laschpapia”, step by step

Laschpapia traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin Papia

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinPapia
2Portuguesepapearto chat, to chatter, to babble
3Portuguesepapocrop; stomach; goitre
4Portuguesepaparto eat
5Old Portuguesepapar
6LatinpappoI eat, eat pap

via Plautdietsch laschen

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Plautdietschlaschento erase
2Middle Low Germanleschen
3Old Saxonleskian
4Proto-West Germanic*laskijanto extinguish, to quench
5Proto-Germaniclaskijanąto extinguish, to quench
Every word from Latin pappo