Zibbe

Etymology
. Probably from or related to, whence also 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬 (13th c., modern 🇨🇬), 🇨🇬.

While the 19th-century attestation is surely belated, the total lack of medieval evidence and the fact that the word is native almost exclusively in East Central German, thus outside the original territory, make its inheritedness. One alternative would be a phonetically adapted borrowing from Low German (during the time of dialect mixing in the colonial areas), plausibly under the influence of. Note that the unadapted form is found in northern as well as Ripuarian.

Noun

 * 1)  ewe or nanny goat
 * 2)  doe hare or doe rabbit
 * 3)  bitch, she-dog
 * 1)  bitch, she-dog
 * 1)  bitch, she-dog