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CashEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
Variant of Case. In the US adopted by German immigrants named Kirch and Kirsch.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗cashEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From late Middle French caisse (“money-box”), itself borrowed from Occitan caissa, from Latin capsa (“box”), ultimately from capiō (“take, seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“grasp”). Doublet of case, chase, and chasse. Compare Spanish caja (“box”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗cashEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From late Middle French caisse (“money-box”), itself borrowed from Occitan caissa, from Latin capsa (“box”), ultimately from capiō (“take, seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“grasp”). Doublet of case, chase, and chasse. Compare Spanish caja (“box”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗cashEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From late Middle French caisse (“money-box”), itself borrowed from Occitan caissa, from Latin capsa (“box”), ultimately from capiō (“take, seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“grasp”). Doublet of case, chase, and chasse. Compare Spanish caja (“box”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗cashEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
Variant of earlier cass under influence from cash above, from Tamil காசு (kācu), ultimately from Sanskrit karsha ("weight of 1/400 tulā, तुला"). Extended to other similar forms of low-denomination coins in Southeast and East Asia following the example of cognate Portuguese cas, casse, caxa, caixa.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗cashEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
See cashier.
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