Etymology

perhap

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Middle English perhap ← Old Norse happ ← Proto-Germanic *hampą
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*per-der.?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pér
  3. Proto-Italic*per
  4. Latinper
  5. Old Frenchpar
  6. Middle Englishper-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*kob-
  8. Proto-Germanic*hampą
  9. Old Norsehapp
  10. Middle Englishhap
  11. Middle Englishperhap
  12. English todayperhap

Inherited from Middle English perhap.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.