An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/nippen

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2521619An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, N — nippenJohn Francis DavisFriedrich Kluge

​ nippen, verb, Modern High German only, from Low German and Dutch nippen, ‘to sip’; in Henneb. and Bavarian nepfen, nöpfen, with the High German pf. Compare further Anglo-Saxon nipele, English nipple?.

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