Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute. · To shout loudly and at high pitch. · To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle. · Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
From Middle English pīpe, pype (“hollow cylinder or tube used as a conduit or container; duct or vessel of the body; musical instrument; financial records maintained by the English Exchequer, pipe roll”), from Old English pīpe (“pipe (musical instrument); the channel of a small stream”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīpā. Reinforced by Vulgar Latin *pīpa, from Latin pipire, pipiare, pipare, from pīpiō (“to chirp, peep”), of imitative origin. Displaced native Old English fealh and Old English þrūh. Doublet of fife. Cognate with Dutch pijp, German Pfeife, Danish pibe, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk pipe, Swedish pipa, Faroese and Icelandic pípa. The “storage container” and “liquid measure” senses are derived from Middle English pīpe (“large storage receptacle, particularly for wine; cask, vat; measure of volume”), from pīpe (above) and Old French pipe (“liquid measure”). In specific contexts, calques similar units of measure such as Portuguese pipa. The verb is from Middle English pīpen, pypyn (“to play a pipe; to make a shrill sound; to speak with a high-pitched tone”), from Old English pīpian (“to pipe”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionpipeenm
- Inherited-form mentionpīpeang
- Inherited-form mention*pīpāgmw-pro
- Derivation mentionpipirela
- Non-cognate comparisonþrūhang
- Doublet mentionfifeen
- Cognate mentionpijpnl
- Cognate mentionPfeifede
- Cognate mentionpibeda
- Cognate mentionpipasv
- Derivation mentionpipefro
- Derivation mentionpipapt
- Inherited-form mentionpipenenm
- Inherited-form mentionpīpianang
This page abbreviates 12 auxiliary source items. The etymology narrative is not shortened. Omission counts are available in the audit fields below; consult the original for complete auxiliary material.
Inspect preserved source fields
Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
{
"templates": [
{
"name": "inh",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "pipe",
"4": "pīpe"
},
"expansion": "Middle English pīpe"
},
{
"name": "inh",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "pīpe",
"4": "",
"5": "pipe (musical instrument); the channel of a small stream"
},
"expansion": "Old English pīpe (“pipe (musical instrument); the channel of a small stream”)"
},
{
"name": "inh",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*pīpā"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *pīpā"
},
{
"name": "der",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la-vul",
"3": "*pīpa"
},
"expansion": "Vulgar Latin *pīpa"
},
{
"name": "der",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "pipire"
},
"expansion": "Latin pipire"
},
{
"name": "onomatopoeic",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"title": "imitative"
},
"expansion": "imitative"
},
{
"name": "noncog",
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "fealh"
},
"expansion": "Old English fealh"
},
{
"name": "ncog",
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "þrūh"
},
"expansion": "Old English þrūh"
},
{
"name": "doublet",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fife"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of fife"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "pijp"
},
"expansion": "Dutch pijp"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Pfeife"
},
"expansion": "German Pfeife"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "pibe"
},
"expansion": "Danish pibe"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "nb,nn",
"2": "pipe"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk pipe"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "pipa"
},
"expansion": "Swedish pipa"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "fo,is",
"2": "pípa"
},
"expansion": "Faroese and Icelandic pípa"
},
{
"name": "inh",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "pipe",
"4": "pīpe",
"5": "large storage receptacle, particularly for wine; cask, vat; measure of volume"
},
"expansion": "Middle English pīpe (“large storage receptacle, particularly for wine; cask, vat; measure of volume”)"
},
{
"name": "der",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "pipe",
"4": "",
"5": "liquid measure"
},
"expansion": "Old French pipe (“liquid measure”)"
},
{
"name": "der",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "pt",
"3": "pipa"
},
"expansion": "Portuguese pipa"
},
{
"name": "inh",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "pipen",
"4": "pīpen"
},
"expansion": "Middle English pīpen"
},
{
"name": "inh",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "pīpian",
"4": "",
"5": "to pipe"
},
"expansion": "Old English pīpian (“to pipe”)"
}
],
"links": [
[
"pīpe",
"pipe#Middle_English"
],
[
"pype",
"pype#Middle_English"
],
[
"pīpe",
"pipe#Old_English"
],
[
"*pīpā",
"Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/pīpā"
],
[
"*pīpa",
"Reconstruction:Latin/pipa"
],
[
"pipire",
"pipire#Latin"
],
[
"pipiare",
"pipiare#Latin"
],
[
"pipare",
"pipare#Latin"
],
[
"pīpiō",
"pipio#Latin"
],
[
"fealh",
"fealh#Old_English"
],
[
"þrūh",
"þruh#Old_English"
],
[
"fife",
"fife#English"
],
[
"pijp",
"pijp#Dutch"
],
[
"Pfeife",
"Pfeife#German"
],
[
"pibe",
"pibe#Danish"
],
[
"Norwegian Bokmål",
"pipe#Norwegian_Bokmål"
],
[
"pipe",
"pipe#Norwegian_Nynorsk"
],
[
"pipa",
"pipa#Swedish"
],
[
"Faroese",
"pípa#Faroese"
],
[
"pípa",
"pípa#Icelandic"
],
[
"pīpe",
"pipe#Middle_English"
],
[
"pipe",
"pipe#Old_French"
],
[
"calque",
"calque"
],
[
"pipa",
"pipa#Portuguese"
],
[
"pīpen",
"pipen#Middle_English"
],
[
"pypyn",
"pypyn#Middle_English"
],
[
"pīpian",
"pipian#Old_English"
]
],
"references": [],
"descendants": [],
"lexical": [
{
"pos": "verb",
"glosses": [
"To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.",
"To shout loudly and at high pitch.",
"To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.",
"Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development."
],
"tags": [
"ambitransitive",
"intransitive"
],
"recordId": "4b2973a43dfbb59db85111e017e18f80abea004a318b9956cc0f7d2ce6bb3a37",
"rawRecordSha256": "1010ca9527dd97eab39d0e1a378e9aa33c1805543fb5c12fad356e2a0487ac57",
"sourceRecordOrdinal": 48903
}
],
"omittedAuxiliaryFields": {
"templates": 0,
"links": 0,
"references": 0,
"descendants": 0,
"lexicalRecords": 0,
"lexicalSenses": 12,
"glosses": 0
}
}