English

kipskin

From kip + skin.

A compound of kip + skin

Middle Low German kip ‘pack, bundle of hides’

Middle Dutch kip

Middle English kipp

English kip

Proto-Indo-European *sken- ‘to split off’

Proto-Germanic *skinþą ‘animal hide’

Old Norse skinn ‘animal hide’

Old English scinn ‘a skin’

Middle English skyn ‘a hide’

English skin

Today it means

noun Leather prepared from the skin of young or small cattle, of a grade between calfskin and cowhide.

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