Where does “קניפּ” come from?

קניפּ (Yiddish) comes from Yiddish קנײַפּן, from Middle Low German knīpen, from Old Saxon knīpan, from Proto-West Germanic knīpan, from Proto-Germanic knīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European ǵneybʰ-.

קניפּ (Yiddish): pinch, nip, tweak

Definitions

  1. pinch, nip, tweak

Ancestry of “קניפּ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Yiddishקנײַפּןpinch
2Middle Low Germanknīpento squeeze
3Old Saxonknīpan—
4Proto-West Germanicknīpanto pinch
5Proto-Germanicknīpanąto pinch
6Proto-Indo-Europeanǵneybʰ-—

Words derived from “קניפּ”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵneybʰ- →Every word from Proto-Germanic knīpaną →Every word from Proto-West Germanic knīpan →