Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something). · To touch lightly. · To wash against a surface, lap. · To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.
Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth. · A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia. · The projecting rim of an open container or a bell, etc.; a short open spout. · Backtalk; verbal impertinence.
From Middle English lippe, from Old English lippa, lippe (“lip”), from Proto-West Germanic *lippjō (“lip”), from Proto-Germanic *lepô, from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely, droop, sag”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Lippe (“lip”), West Frisian lippe (“lip”), Dutch lip (“lip”), German Lippe and Lefze (“lip”), Low German Lippe (“lip”), Luxembourgish Lëps (“lip”), Vilamovian łyp (“lip”), Yiddish ליפּ (lip, “lip”), Danish læbe (“lip”), Norwegian Bokmål leppe (“lip”), Norwegian Nynorsk leppa, leppe, lippa, lippe (“lip”), Swedish läpp (“lip”), Latin labium (“lip”).
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- Root classification mention*leb-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionlippeenm
- Inherited-form mentionlippaang
- Inherited-form mention*lippjōgmw-pro
- Derivation mention*lepôgem-pro
- Derivation mention*leb-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionLippestq
- Cognate mentionlippefy
- Cognate mentionlipnl
- Cognate mentionLippede
- Cognate mentionLippends
- Cognate mentionLëpslb
- Cognate mentionłypwym
- Cognate mentionליפּyi
- Cognate mentionlæbeda
- Cognate mentionleppenb
- Cognate mentionleppann
- Cognate mentionläppsv
- Cognate mentionlabiumla
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