tippen

Dutch

Etymology

tip +‎ -en

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɪ.pə(n)/

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• Rhymes: -ɪpən

Verb

tippen

1. to tip (give a gratuity)
2. to tip (give a hint)

Inflection

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɪpən/, ,

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• Hyphenation: tip‧pen

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German tippen (“to touch lightly”), from Middle Low German tip (“tip, fingertip”), cognate with English tip, from Proto-Germanic *tuppijô, *tuppijǭ (“tip”), diminutive of *tuppaz (“top”).

Merged with Central and Low German tippen, dippen, düppen (“to dip, to dab, to tap”), from Proto-Germanic *dupjaną, cognate with tupfen and English dip. The sense “to type” is influenced by English type.

Verb

tippen (weak, third-person singular present tippt, past tense tippte, past participle getippt, auxiliary haben)

1. to tap, to strike lightly (often repeatedly)
2. (transitive, intransitive) to type (on a typewriter or keyboard)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• Tippen, Tipper, Tippung
• tippend, getippt
• vertippen

Related terms

• abtippen, antippen, eintippen

Etymology 2

From Tipp, from English tip.

Verb

tippen (weak, third-person singular present tippt, past tense tippte, past participle getippt, auxiliary haben)

1. to make an informed guess
2. to make a prediction (of a sport result, etc.)

Conjugation

Further reading

• “tippen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “tippen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “tippen” in Duden online
• “tippen” in OpenThesaurus.de

Middle English

Alternative forms

• tipen, tipe, type

Etymology

Possibly from North Germanic/Scandinavian (compare Swedish tippa (“to topple over”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtipən/, /ˈtiːpən/

Verb

tippen

1. to fall, be overturned

Conjugation

Descendants

• English: tip
• Yola: teap, taape, tape

References

• “tippen, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.