Imp Definition

Origin of Imp

• Middle English impe scion, sprig, offspring from Old English impa young shoot from impian to graft ultimately from Medieval Latin impotus graft from Greek emphutos grafted from emphuein to implant en- in en–² phuein to make grow bheuə- in Indo-European roots

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• From Middle English impe, ympe, from Old English impa, impe (“an imp, scion, graft, shoot; young tree”), from Old English impian (“to imp, graft”), from Proto-Germanic *impōną, *impitōną (“to graft”) (> Old High German impfōn). Cognate with Danish ympe, German Impf, Swedish ymp.

  From Wiktionary

• Old English impian, apparently ultimately from a Latin source. Cognate with German impfen.

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