Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗Cheaply.
Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering. · A market; marketplace. · Price. · A low price; a bargain.
To trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods. · To bargain for; chaffer for; ask the price of; offer a price for; cheapen. · To buy; purchase. · To sell.
As a noun, from Middle English chep, from Old English cēap (“trade, market, value”), from Proto-West Germanic *kaup. As a verb, from Middle English chepen, from Old English ċēapian (“to buy, bargain, trade”), from Proto-West Germanic *kaupōn, from Proto-Germanic *kaupōną, a verbal derivative of *kaupô (“trader”), from Latin caupō. The adjective originated as a shortening of Middle and Early Modern English good cheap, literally “good purchase” (as in “that was good cheap”, i.e. “that was [a] good purchase”). Compare Dutch goedkoop, French bon marché. Cognates Cognate with Scots chepe (“to sell”), chape (“sale price”), North Frisian keap (“purchase”), West Frisian keap (“purchase, buy, acquisition”), Dutch koop (“buy, purchase, deal”), kopen (“to buy, purchase, shop”), Low German kopen (“to buy”), German Kauf (“trade, traffic, bargain, purchase, buy”), kaufen (“to buy”), Swedish köp (“bargain, purchase”), köpa (“to buy, purchase”), Norwegian Nynorsk kjøpa (“to buy, purchase”), Icelandic kaup (“purchase, bargain”), kaupa (“to purchase”); also borrowed as Finnish kauppa (“shop, trade”), Russian купить (kupitʹ, “to purchase”), Old Church Slavonic коупити (kupiti, “to purchase”), Bulgarian ку́пя (kúpja, “to purchase”), Serbo-Croatian купити (“to purchase”), Czech koupit (“to purchase”), Polish kupić (“to purchase”).
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- Inherited-form mentionchepenm
- Inherited-form mentioncēapang · trade, market, value
- Inherited-form mention*kaupgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mentionchepenenm
- Inherited-form mentionċēapianang · to buy, bargain, trade
- Inherited-form mention*kaupōngmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*kaupōnągem-pro
- Derivation mentioncaupōla
- Cognate mentionchepesco · to sell
- Cognate mentionkeapfrr · purchase
- Cognate mentionkeapfy · purchase, buy, acquisition
- Cognate mentionkoopnl · buy, purchase, deal
- Cognate mentionkopennds · to buy
- Cognate mentionKaufde · trade, traffic, bargain, purchase, buy
- Cognate mentionköpsv · bargain, purchase
- Cognate mentionkjøpann · to buy, purchase
- Cognate mentionkaupis · purchase, bargain
- Cognate mentionkauppafi · shop, trade
- Cognate mentionкупитьru · to purchase
- Cognate mentionкоупитиcu · to purchase
- Cognate mentionку́пяbg · to purchase
- Cognate mentionкупитиsh · to purchase
- Cognate mentionkoupitcs · to purchase
- Cognate mentionkupićpl · to purchase
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