wippen

== English == === Etymology === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Noun === wippen (plural wippens) (music) A component of the action of a mechanical keyboard instrument such as a piano or organ ==== Synonyms ==== (piano action component): whip, whippen === Further reading === “wippen”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. == Dutch == === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɪpən === Etymology 1 === Derived from Middle Dutch wyppen (first attested in 1477), from Middle High German wipfen (“to jump”), from Proto-Germanic *wipjan- (“to move up and down”), probably related to *waibijaną (“to move around”). ==== Verb ==== wippen to play with a seesaw to overthrow, flip over to dandle, teeter dat tafeltje wipt: that table teeters to hop (informal) to have sexual intercourse ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Derived terms ===== tegelwippen ===== Descendants ===== Afrikaans: wip Berbice Creole Dutch: wepn === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Noun ==== wippen plural of wip == German == === Etymology === From Low German and Middle Low German wippen, ultimately from or related to Proto-West Germanic *waibijan (“to move back and forth”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈvɪpn̩] Hyphenation: wip‧pen === Verb === wippen (weak, third-person singular present wippt, past tense wippte, past participle gewippt, auxiliary haben) to seesaw ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== Wippen === Further reading === “wippen” in Duden online “wippen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “wippen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon