An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Gips

by Friedrich Kluge

Gips, masculine, ‘gypsum, plaster of Paris,’ from the equivalent Middle High German and late Old High German gips, which again is derived from Middle Latin-Greek gypsum (γύψος, Middle Greek and Modern Greek ν being pronounced like i, see Kirche), whence also French gypse, Dutch gips.