Editing Imp (section)

==Etymology==
The [[Old English]] noun ''impa'' meant a young shoot or [[Scion (grafting)|scion]] of a plant or tree, and later came to mean the scion of a [[Dynasty|noble house]], or a child in general.<ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Imp}}</ref> Starting in the 16th century, it was often used in expressions like "imps of serpents", "imp of hell", "imp of the devil", and so on; and by the 17th century, it came to mean a small demon, a [[Familiar spirit|familiar]] of a [[witch]]. The Old English noun and associated verb ''impian'' appear to come from an unattested [[Late Latin]] term *''emputa'' (''impotus'' is attested in the [[Salic law]]), the neuter plural of {{langx|grc|ἔμϕυτος}}  'natural, implanted, grafted'.<ref>''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'', 1st edition, 1899, [http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/92032 ''s.v.'' 'imp']</ref>