Masculine

chiffon

Meaning

Concepts

(masculine) rag
(masculine) scrap

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʃi.fɔ̃/

Inherited from Middle French

Inherited from Old French

Cognate with English

In summary

From chiffe + -on. Chiffe is from Middle French chiffe (“cloth, old rag”) from Old French chipe (“rag”), from Middle English chip, chippe (“chip, shard, fragment”) from Old English ċipp (“chip, splinter, shaving”), from Old English *ċippian (“to chip, shave, splinter”), from Proto-West Germanic *kipp-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵey- (“to split; divide; germinate; sprout”). More at English chip.