Etymograph

English

treehopper

From tree + hopper.

A compound of tree + hopper

Proto-Indo-European *dóru

Proto-Germanic *trewą

Proto-West Germanic *treu

Old English trēo ‘tree’

Middle English trau

English tree

Proto-Germanic *huppōną

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Old English hoppian ‘to hop’

Old English *hoppa ‘one who hops, hopper’

Middle English *hoppe

Middle English hoppere

English hopper

Today it means

noun An insect of the family Membracidae.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “treehopper”. 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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