Pippin (name)
Pippin was the name of numerous important members of the Carolingian ruling family of the medieval Franconian Empire , who are therefore also known under the name Pippinids . In many genealogies, Pippin is also represented in the French spelling Pépin .
Origin (etymology)
The name Pippin is derived from a Frankish nickname pippinus for "little child". For this word there are again several etymological explanations: pippinus could "little child" to be derived from a Germanic root * bib - ( "move fluctuate" for "small, easily movable object". See double. Bibi "yours truly" ), from a child-language sound word for a small bird (derived from beeping) or from the Romance root, which is also the basis of today's French word pépin "core" (then a metaphor such as "as small as an apple core" would be assumed).
See also
- Pippin (disambiguation)
Personalities with the first name Pippin
- Pippin Wigglesworth , writer
Fictional characters
- Pippin - Hobbit in " The Lord of the Rings " by JRR Tolkien
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- ^ Leo Spitzer : Etudes d'anthroponymie ancienne française . In: Publications of the modern language association of America 58 . Issue 3 / September 1943, pp. 589–596, here pp. 593–596: II. Pépin le Bref , esp. 596.