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pip.

Pip (any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza)

3 characters1 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

noun/pɪp/
  1. Pip (any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza)

    masculine · no-diminutive · uncountable
  2. of humans, a disease (particularly the common cold or the flu), malaise or depression

    colloquial · humorous · masculine · no-diminutive · uncountable
Where this word comes from

From Middle Dutch pippe, pip, pips (“pip”, also “cold, flu”), ultimately from post-classical Latin pip(p)ita, from Latin pītuīta (“slime, head cold”). The word was borrowed into West Germanic before the High German consonant shift as *pippit, whence Old High German pfipfiz and (Central German) pipz, *pippiz (modern German Pips, obsolete Pfipfs). In Dutch and Low German we should expect a form such as *pippet, which is not attested, however. One possibility is that these dialects borrowed the Central German form and the final s-sound was later reanalysed as the genitive suffix. Middle Dutch also had pipeye, from Old French pipie.

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