Etymology

chaft

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Northern Middle English chaft ← Old Norse kjaptr
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The story

  1. Old Norse · derived fromkjaptr
  2. Northern Middle English · inherited fromchaft
  3. English todaychaft

Inherited from Northern Middle English chaft, from Old Norse kjaptr, kjǫptr.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.