Kauf

From Old High German kouf, from Proto-Germanic *kaupaz, *kaupô (“inn-keeper, merchant”), *kaupōną, *kaupijaną (“to buy, purchase”), from Latin caupo (“tradesman, innkeeper, huckster”), from Proto-Indo-European *kaup-, *ḱaup-, *kwap-, *ḱwap- (“merchant”), related to Ancient Greek κάπηλος (kápēlos, “huckster”). Cognate with English cheap, 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”), Swedish köp (“bargain, purchase”), köpa (“to buy, purchase”), Icelandic kaup (“purchase, bargain”), kaupa (“to purchase”), Finnish kauppa (“shop”).

• IPA^(key): /kaʊ̯f/

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• Rhymes: -aʊ̯f

Kauf m (genitive Kaufs or Kaufes, plural Käufe)

1. purchase

• Abkauf
• Einkauf

• kaufen
• Verkauf

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