Etymograph

English

rewhip

From re- + whip.

Formed from re- + whip

Proto-Italic *wre- ‘again’

English re-

Proto-Indo-European *weyp- ‘to shake’

Proto-Germanic *wippōną ‘to move back and forth’

Middle Dutch wippen ‘to swing, leap, dance, oscillate’

Middle English whippen

English whip

Today it means

verb To whip again.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “rewhip”. 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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