Etymograph

English

repipe

From re- + pipe.

Formed from re- + pipe

Proto-Italic *wre- ‘again’

English re-

Latin pīpō ‘to pip, peep’

Vulgar Latin *pīpa

Proto-West Germanic *pīpā

Old English pīpe

Middle English pīpe ‘a piece of tubing which string or rope is…’

English pipe

Today it means

verb To replace the pipes in.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “repipe”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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