Where does “lepa” come from?

lepa (Polish) comes from German lippe, from Yiddish ליפּ, from Middle High German lippe, from Old High German *lippa, from Proto-Germanic *lippjō.

lepa (Polish): oaf; someone who is inept or clumsy; A smack on...

Definitions

  1. oaf; someone who is inept or clumsy; A smack on...

Ancestry of “lepa”, step by step

lepa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German lippe

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanlippelip
2Yiddishליפּlip
3Middle High Germanlippe
4Old High German*lippa
5Proto-Germanic*lippjō

via Proto-Slavic *lěpa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Slavic*lěpa
Every word from Proto-Germanic *lippjō