hæft
Danish
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hæft/
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *haftiją, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p-. Cognate with Middle Low German hecht (Dutch hecht, heft), Old High German hefti (German Heft), Old Norse hepti. The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin capere, Old Irish cacht (Welsh caeth ‘slave’, Breton keaz ‘poor’), Albanian kap ‘grip’, Slavic *xopītī- (Old Church Slavonic хапѭште, Russian хапать), Baltic *kap- (Lithuanian kàpteleti, Latvian kàmpt ‘bite’).
Noun
hæft n
Etymology 2
From Proto-Germanic *haftaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂ptós (“grabbed”). Cognate with Middle Low German hacht, Old High German hafta (German Haft), Old Norse hapt, haptr. The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin captus (past participle of capiō), Old Irish cacht (Welsh caeth ‘slave’, Breton keaz ‘poor’), Albanian kap ‘grip’, Slavic *xopītī- (Old Church Slavonic хапѭште, Russian хапать), Baltic *kap- (Lithuanian kàpteleti, Latvian kàmpt ‘bite’).
Noun
hæft m