Etymograph

English

drip

Drip comes from Old English drypan ‘to drip, fall in drops’, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *drupô ‘drop’.

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*drupô‘drop’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanic, derivedc. 500 BCE–200 CE*drupjaną‘to fall in drops, drip’reconstructed
  3. Old Englishc. 450–1150drypan‘to drip, fall in drops’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500drippen
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1913drip

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*drupô‘drop’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanic, derivedc. 500 BCE–200 CE*drupjaną‘to fall in drops, drip’reconstructed
  3. Old Englishc. 450–1150drypan‘to drip, fall in drops’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500drippen
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1913drip

Earliest quotation: 1913, Joseph Crosby Lincoln, New York: “Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with…”

Linked words

through Proto-Germanic *drupô ‘drop’

drop, 1 more

Another origin of drip

  1. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500drippe
  2. Englishtodaydrip

Today it means

verb To fall one drop at a time.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *drupô / drip

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