The story
- Latin · derived fromcapsa“box, chest, case”
- Old French · derived fromcasse
- Middle Dutch · derived fromkasse
- Dutch · borrowed fromkas“cupboard, chest, case”
- English todaykas
Borrowed from Dutch kas (“cupboard, chest, case”), from Middle Dutch kasse, casse, from Old French casse, from Latin capsa (“box, chest, case”).
Words from the same roots
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.