Etymograph

English

Zipser

Zipser comes from German Zipser ‘a Zipser’, and goes back to Zips.

  1. Germanc. 1650–presentZips
  2. German, derivedc. 1650–presentZipser‘a Zipser’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1854same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Germanc. 1650–presentZips
  2. German, derivedc. 1650–presentZipser‘a Zipser’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1854same form

Earliest quotation: 1854, Sandor Mednyánszky, Anna Margaret Birkbeck: “The Zipsers are an enduring and vigorous race of…”

Every English word from German Zips

Today it means

noun A member of the Germanic-speaking ethnic group which developed in the Zips region of Upper Hungary (now Slovakia) beginning in the 13th century, and subsequently settled also in northern Romani, Bukovina, Maramureș, Transylvania, and ultimately Germany.

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