hap
English
/hæp/
noun
Definitions
- (slang) Happenings; events; goings-on.
- (archaic) That which happens; an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event; chance; fortune; luck.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English hap derived from Old Norse happ (good luck, hap, chance) derived from Proto-Germanic *hampą (convenience, happiness) derived from Proto-Indo-European *kob- (bow, bend, prophecy, fit in, good fortune, work, succeed) inherited from Middle English happen (happen, come to pass) derived from Old Norse *happa, *heppa derived from Proto-Germanic *hampijaną (fit in, be fitting).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*hampijaną
Gloss
fit in, be fitting
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- behap English
- behappen English
- hapful English
- haphazard English
- haphazardly English
- haphazardness English
- haphazardous English
- haphazardry English
- hapless English
- haplessly English
- haplessness English
- haply English
- happen English
- happenable English
- happenchance English
- happener English
- happenest English
- happeneth English
- happening English
- happify English
- happily English
- happiness English
- happy English
- happycore English
- happyish English
- happyologist English
- happyology English
- hazard English
- mishap English
- mishappen English
- mishappiness English
- mishappy English
- nonhappy English
- overhappy English
- per English
- perhaps English
- rehappen English
- semihappy English
- unhaphazard English
- unhappen English
- unhappy English
- happy German
- *kob- Proto-Indo-European
- *hampijaną Proto-Germanic
- *hampą Proto-Germanic
- hampa Swedish
- hämpling Swedish
- ハッピー Japanese
- hæppan Old English
- hap Middle English
- happely Middle English
- happen Middle English
- happenen Middle English
- happy Middle English
- *happa Old Norse
- *happa, *heppa Old Norse
- happ Old Norse
- *kobь Proto-Slavic
- happ Icelandic
- happadrjúgur Icelandic
- óhapp Icelandic
- happ Faroese
- кобь Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- per
- behap
- happy
- haply
- happen
- hazard
- mishap
- hapful
- unhappy
- happify
- happily
- hapless
- perhaps
- mishappy
- happener
- behappen
- rehappen
- happyish
- unhappen
- nonhappy
- haplessly
- overhappy
- happycore
- happenest
- happeneth
- haphazard
- mishappen
- happening
- happiness
- semihappy
- happyology
- happenable
- haphazardry
- haplessness
- haphazardly
- unhaphazard
- mishappiness
- haphazardous
- happyologist
- happenchance
- haphazardness