genip

genip (plural genips)

1. A succulent berry with a thick rind, the fruit of plants in the genus Genipa.

ge- +‎ nip, cognate with German nebul, Old Norse nifl, from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos.

genip n (nominative plural genipu)

1. mist, vapours, darkness, obscurity
   • Wearþ genip, and ofersceadede híg (facta est nūbes, et obumbrāvit eos), Lk. Bos. 9, 34.
   • Ðæt genip stód æt ðæs geteldes dura (the cloud stood at the door of the tabernacle), Ex. 33, 10: Cd. 8; Th. 9, 9; Gen. 139.
   • Moises eóde to ðam genipe (Moyses accessit ad calīgĭnem), Ex. 20, 21.
   • Com stefen of ðam genipe (vox facta est de nūbe), Lk. Bos. 9, 35.
   • On ðæt genip (in nūbem), Lk. Bos. 9, 34.
   • In ðæt neowle genip (into the deep darkness), Cd. 223; Th. 292, 25; Sat. 445: 217; Th. 275, 31; Sat. 180: Exon. 93 b; Th. 351, 12; Sch. 79.
   • Ofer flóda genipu (over the mists of floods), Beo. Th. 5608; B. 2808: 2724; B. 1360.
   • Ðú ðe gesetst genipu upastínesse ðínne oððe ðínne upstíge (qui pōnis nūbem ascensum tuum), Ps. Lamb. 103, 3: Ps. Spl. 77, 27.
2. a cloud (in the sky), a storm-cloud
   • Sweart wolcen and genip (atra nubes), Nar. 23, 23.
   • Wolcnu & genipu (nubes), Ps. L. 17, 13.
   • Winterbiter weder and wolcna genipu, Az. 105. (1 a)
   • Gyf strongra storm and genip swíþor þreáde (si procella fortior aut nimbus perurgeret), Bd. 4, 3; Sch. 361, 3.
   • Þá wæs swýðe mycel genip geworden in þám wolcnum, and unmǽte rénas ríndon collecto (in nubibus aere immensa nimis pluvia erupit), Gr. D. 196, 1.

• þystru
• wolcen

• genipan "to rise as a cloud, to darken"
• nipan

• Bosworth (1882)