weip-

To turn, vacillate, tremble ecstatically.

Derivatives include wipe, whip, and vibrate.

1. O-grade form *woip-. waif¹, waif², waive, waiver, from Anglo-Norman waif, ownerless property, from a Scandinavian source probably akin to Old Norse veif, waving thing, flag, from Germanic *waif-.

2. Variant form *weib-.

a. wipe, from Old English wīpian, to wipe;

b. guipure, from Old French guiper, to cover with silk;

c. whip, from Middle English wippen, to whip. a-c all from Germanic *wīpjan, to move back and forth.

3. Perhaps suffixed nasalized zero-grade form *wi-m-p-ila-.

a. wimple, from Old English wimpel, covering for the neck (< “something that winds around”);

b. gimp¹, guimpe, from Old High German wimpal, guimpe;

c. perhaps Middle Dutch wimmel, auger (< “that which turns in boring”): wimble.

4. Suffixed zero-grade variant form *wib-ro-. vibrate, from Latin vibrāre, to vibrate.

 

[Pokorny u̯eip- 1131.]

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