English
kype
Kype comes from Scots kip ‘something beaked or hooked’.
- Scotsc. 1450–presentkip‘something beaked or hooked’
- Englishtodaykype
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Scotsc. 1450–presentkip‘something beaked or hooked’
- Englishtodaykype
The story
From Scots kip, kipp (‘something beaked or hooked’); perhaps related to Middle Low German kippe (‘point, tip’), German Kippe (‘stub’), both from Latin cippus (‘stake, post, boundary marker’).
Every English word from Scots kip
Today it means
noun The hook that develops in the lower jaw of an adult male of most salmonid species when it is ready to spawn.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Scots kip / kype