Tampon
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mid 19th century: from French, nasalized variant of tapon ‘plug, stopper’, ultimately of Germanic origin and related to tap1.
wiktionary
[1848] Borrowed from French tampon, from Middle French tampion, a nasalised variant of tapon, a diminutive or augmented form of Old French tape(“plug, bung, tap”), from Frankish *tappo(“stopper, plug”), from Proto-Germanic *tappô(“plug, tap”). Cognate with Old High German zapfo(“stopper”), Old English tæppa(“stopper”). More at tap.
etymonline
tampon (n.)
"plug of cotton to stanch a flow of blood (especially from the vagina)," 1848, from French tampon, originally "plug" (see tampion). Tampax, proprietary name registered in U.S. 1932, is based on tampon.
