Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗To put a label (a ticket or sign) on (something). · To give (a label) to (someone or something) in order to categorise that person or thing. · To replace specific atoms by their isotope in order to track the presence or movement of this isotope through a reaction, metabolic pathway or cell. · To add a detectable substance, either transiently or permanently, to a biological substance in order to track the presence of the label-substance combination either in situ or in vitro
From Middle English label (“narrow band, strip of cloth”), from Old French label, lambel (Modern French lambeau), from Frankish *lappā (“torn piece of cloth”), from Proto-Germanic *lappǭ, *lappô (“cloth stuff, rag, scraps, flap, dewlap, lobe, rabbit ear”), from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“blade”). Cognate with Old High German lappa (“rag, piece of cloth”), Old English læppa (“skirt, flap of a garment”). More at lap.
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