Lemizh / English dictionary

xpàf.

to make peoples

Etymology

< NLem xpif‑a
< LMLem jUpìf‑yr ‘foreigner’
< MLem jUpiif‑yr
< OLem jüpīf‑ ‘a foreign people’
< PLem *jū‑piwf‑ ‘a foreign people’, lit. ‘you drinkers’, compound of
  PLem *jū ‘you’ [plural]
< PIE *i̯uH
 —and—
  PLem *piwf‑ ‘drink’, i-reduplicated athematic present of
< PIE *peh₃‑

It is unclear to which people the PLem word referred to, and whether it was a derogatory term or a title of praise.

Cognates

Eng you; Lat bibō ‘drink’