Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A playful bite. · A pinch with the nails or teeth. · Briskly cold weather. · A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon. · To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip. · To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold. · To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
From late Middle English nippen, probably of Low German or Dutch origin, probably a byform of earlier *knippen (suggested by the derivative Middle English knippette (“pincers”)), from Middle Low German knîpen, from Old Saxon *knīpan, from Proto-West Germanic *knīpan, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *knīpaną (“to pinch”). Related to Dutch nijpen, knijpen (“to pinch”), Danish nive (“pinch”); Swedish nypa (“pinch”); Low German knipen; German kneipen and kneifen (“to pinch, cut off, nip”), Old Norse hnippa (“to prod, poke”); Lithuanian knebti.
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- Inherited-form mentionnippenenm
- Cognate mentionknippetteenm · pincers
- Derivation mentionknîpengml
- Derivation mention*knīpanosx
- Derivation mention*knīpangmw-pro
- Derivation mention*knīpanągem-pro
- Cognate mentionnijpennl
- Cognate mentionniveda
- Cognate mentionnypasv
- Cognate mentionknipennds
- Cognate mentionkneipende
- Cognate mentionhnippanon
- Cognate mentionknebtilt
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