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==Etymology==
− Middle English wippen, whippen is not found in Old English;^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) it is probably, like Middle Low German wippen, [[bor|dum|wippen|t=to swing, leap]],^(Hoad 1986)^(NODE 1998)^(Cresswell 2021) from a Germanic base meaning “to move quickly”,^(Hoad 1986)^(NODE 1998) which Watkins traces to a root meaning “to turn, vacillate, tremble”.^(Etymonline) Related words are Danish vippe, to swing up, and Middle High German wipfen, to jump.^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) The OED thinks the senses of the noun and verb represent several separate adoptions or formations.^(Etymonline)
+ [[enm|wippen]], whippen is not found in Old English;^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) it is probably, like [[gml|wippen]], [[bor|dum|wippen|t=to swing, leap]],^(Hoad 1986)^(NODE 1998)^(Cresswell 2021) from a Germanic base meaning “to move quickly”,^(Hoad 1986)^(NODE 1998) which Watkins traces to a root meaning “to turn, vacillate, tremble”.^(Etymonline) Related words are [[da|vippe]], to swing up, and [[gmh|wipfen]], to jump.^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) The OED thinks the senses of the noun and verb represent several separate adoptions or formations.^(Etymonline)
==Earliest recorded meaning==