English
Lindy Hop
From Lindy + hop, after US aviator Charles A.
Proto-Indo-European *kewb- ‘to bend’
Proto-Germanic *huppōną ‘to hop’
Proto-West Germanic *huppōn
Old English hoppian ‘to hop’
Middle English hoppen
English hop
Today it means
noun An American form of dance, from the 1920s, accompanied by jazz music.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Lindy Hop