hypso-
word forming element meaning ‘height’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
Gk. hypsos ‘height, top’ < upso-< hipsaw < upo < Tamil uppu
Miscellaneous:
The base forms of the following words in the West Indo-European languages found in Online Etymology and other dictionaries are given as follows:
Ir. foss ‘servant’; G. oben ‘above’; Goth. ufta ‘often’