Etymograph

English

guipure

Guipure comes from Old French guiper ‘to cover with silk’, from Frankish *wīpan ‘to wind, wrap’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyp- ‘to vibrate, tremble, oscillate’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*weyp-‘to vibrate, tremble, oscillate’root as named
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*wéyb-etireconstructed
  3. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*wīpaną‘to wind, wrap’reconstructed
  4. Frankishc. 250–700*wīpan‘to wind, wrap’reconstructed
  5. Old Frenchc. 842–1400guiper‘to cover with silk’
  6. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600guipure
  7. Frenchc. 1600–presentsame form
  8. Englishearliest quotation 1855same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*weyp-‘to vibrate, tremble, oscillate’root as named
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*wéyb-etireconstructed
  3. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*wīpaną‘to wind, wrap’reconstructed
  4. Frankishc. 250–700*wīpan‘to wind, wrap’reconstructed
  5. Old Frenchc. 842–1400guiper‘to cover with silk’
  6. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600guipure
  7. Frenchc. 1600–presentsame form
  8. Englishearliest quotation 1855same form

Earliest quotation: 1855, Mantillas and Shawls: “Mantillas are larger than last year, and are generally…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *weyp- ‘to vibrate, tremble, oscillate’

whip, wipe, vibrant, vibration, weave, waive, vibrator, vibrate, waver, vibrato, waif, 7 more

Today it means

noun A kind of bobbin lace that connects the motifs with bars or plaits rather than net or mesh.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *weyp- / guipure

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