wippen

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wippen (plural wippens)

1. (music) A component of the action of a mechanical keyboard instrument such as a piano or organ

• (piano action component): whip, whippen

• “wippen”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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• Rhymes: -ɪpən

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”).

wippen

1. to play with a seesaw
2. to overthrow, flip over
3. to dandle, teeter

   dat tafeltje wipt: that table teeters

4. to hop
5. (informal) to have sexual intercourse

• tegelwippen

• Afrikaans: wip
• Berbice Creole Dutch: wepn

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

wippen

1. plural of wip

From Low German and Middle Low German wippen, ultimately from or related to Proto-West Germanic *waibijan (“to move back and forth”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɪpn̩]
• Hyphenation: wip‧pen

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wippen (weak, third-person singular present wippt, past tense wippte, past participle gewippt, auxiliary haben)

1. to seesaw

• Wippen

• “wippen” in Duden online
• “wippen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache