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From Middle English chippe. Original /-p/ was voiced to /-m/ after long /iː/, compare Phielim (“Philip”).
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- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 30