means The two soft, fleshy folds surrounding the opening of the mouth, used for speaking, eating, and kissing.

from From Old English 'lippa,' with cousins all across the Germanic family — Dutch 'lip,' German 'Lippe' — and likely tracing back to a Proto-Indo-European root '*leb-' meaning 'to lick' or 'to hang loosely.' The same ancient root probably surfaces in Latin 'labium,' the source of 'labial' and 'labret.' A word so old and so universal that nearly every European tongue arrived at something that sounds like a soft pucker.