Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To make by hand and with much skill. · To construct, develop something (like a skilled craftsman). · To combine multiple items to form a new item, such as armour or medicine.
Strength; power; might; force . · Ability, skillfulness, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs, adroitness, practical cunning; ingenuity in constructing, dexterity . · Cunning, art, skill, or dexterity applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; subtlety; shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception . · Occult art, magic .
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *krafjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *kraftuz Proto-West Germanic *kraftu Old English cræft Middle English craft English craft Inherited from Middle English craft (“strength, skill”), from Old English cræft (“strength, skill”), from Proto-West Germanic *kraftu, from Proto-Germanic *kraftuz (“strength, power”); further origin obscure. Cognate with Dutch kracht (“strength, power, force”), German Kraft (“strength, power, force, energy, employee”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish kraft (“strength, power, force”), Faroese and Icelandic kraftur (“strength”).
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- Inherited-form mentioncraftenm
- Inherited-form mentioncraftenm · strength, skill
- Inherited-form mentioncræftang · strength, skill
- Inherited-form mention*kraftugmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*kraftuzgem-pro · strength, power
- Cognate mentionkrachtnl · strength, power, force
- Cognate mentionKraftde · strength, power, force, energy, employee
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