Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To capture or arrest someone. · To obtain, to purchase (items including but not limited to drugs), to get hold of, to take. · To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing. · To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
Uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English *coppen, *copen, from Old English copian (“to plunder; pillage; steal”); or possibly from Middle French caper (“to capture”), from Latin capiō (“to seize, grasp”); or possibly from Dutch kapen (“to seize, hijack”), from Old Frisian kāpia (“to buy”), whence West Frisian keapje, Saterland Frisian koopje, North Frisian koopi, kuupe. Compare also Middle English copen (“to buy”), from Middle Dutch copen.
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- Root classification mention*kap-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mention*coppenenm
- Inherited-form mentioncopianang · to plunder; pillage; steal
- Derivation mentioncaperfrm · to capture
- Derivation mentioncapiōla · to seize, grasp
- Derivation mentionkapennl · to seize, hijack
- Derivation mentionkāpiaofs · to buy
- Cognate mentionkeapjefy
- Cognate mentionkoopjestq
- Cognate mentionkoopifrr
- Cognate mentioncopenenm · to buy
- Cognate mentioncopendum
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