nippe

nippe

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of nippen

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• IPA^(key): /nip/

nippe f (plural nippes)

1. (often in the plural) cheap and worn-out clothing; frippery

• nipper

• → German: Nippes

• “nippe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• pépin

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nippe

1. inflection of nippen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

From Proto-Algonquian *nepyi, from Proto-Algic *nepiʔi (“water”).

• (Revived) IPA^(key): /ˈnəpˌpə/

nippe

1. water

• A Grammar of the Massachusetts Indian Language (1822)