Etymograph

English

jupette

Jupette comes from French jupette ‘short skirt’, from Arabic جُبَّة ‘long garment’, and ultimately from Proto-Semitic *gbb ‘to bend, curve, cut’.

  1. Proto-Semiticc. 4000–3000 BCE*gbb‘to bend, curve, cut’reconstructed
  2. Arabicc. 500–presentجُبَّة‘long garment’
  3. Old Italianmoderngiubba
  4. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600jupe
  5. Frenchc. 1600–presentsame form‘skirt’
  6. French, derivedc. 1600–presentjupette‘short skirt’
  7. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Semiticc. 4000–3000 BCE*gbb‘to bend, curve, cut’reconstructed
  2. Arabicc. 500–presentجُبَّة‘long garment’
  3. Old Italianmoderngiubba
  4. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600jupe
  5. Frenchc. 1600–presentsame form‘skirt’
  6. French, derivedc. 1600–presentjupette‘short skirt’
  7. Englishtodaysame form

Linked words

through Proto-Semitic *gbb ‘to bend, curve, cut’

doublet, 2 more

Today it means

noun A jupon with a very short skirt.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Semitic *gbb / jupette

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