Kip
late Middle English: perhaps related to Middle Dutch kip, kijp ‘bundle (of hides)’.
wiktionary
1325–75, Middle English kipp, from Middle Dutch kip, from Middle Low German kip(“pack, bundle of hides”).
1760–70, probably related to Danish kippe(“dive, hovel, cheap inn”) and Middle Low German kiffe(“hovel”). From the same distant Germanic root as cove.
From Middle English kippen, from Old Norse kippa(“to pull; snatch”). Cognate with Norwegian kippe(“to snatch”), Swedish kippa(“to snatch; jerk”); Dutch kippen(“to seize; catch”).
1910–15, Americanism, abbreviated from kilo + pound.
1950–55, from Lao ກີບ(kīp).
Unknown. Perhaps related to Yorkshire and Lincolnshire dialect kep, to toss up into the air. [1] Or else, perhaps related to German Kippe(“stub”).
Unknown.
