Diapers / nappys

In the uk we refer to diapers as nappys well i do any way i wonder where the name came from to describe such items as nappys / diapers ? does any body know ?

It is a diminutive of napkin. The nap refers to the texture of traditional terry nappies. But does anyone no whence comes the american term "diaper?"

It was always nappies with me when my kid was a baby.

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"The Middle English word diaper originally referred to the type of cloth rather than its use; "diaper" was the term for a pattern of repeated, diamond shapes, and later came to describe a white cotton or linen fabric with this pattern. The first cloth diapers consisted of a special type of soft tissue sheet, cut into geometric shapes. This type of pattern was called diapering and eventually gave its name to the cloth used to make diapers and then to the diaper itself, traced back to 1590s England. This usage stuck in the United States and Canada following the British colonization of North America, but in Britain the word "nappy" took its place. Most sources believe nappy is a diminutive form of the word napkin, which was itself originally a diminutive."