The story
- Old Norse · derived fromvápnatak
- Old English · inherited fromwǣpenġetæc
- Middle English · inherited fromwapentake
- English todaywapentake
From Middle English wapentake, wepentake, wapentache, wapentac, from Old English wǣpenġetæc, from Old Norse vápnatak, from vápn (“weapon”) + taka (“take”), equivalent to weapon + take.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.