From Middle English cheep, chepe/chepen, chep, cheap/cheapien, chapien, from Old English cēap, ċēapian, from Proto-West Germanic *kaup, *kaupōn, from Proto-Germanic *kaupōną, *kaupijaną, *kaupô, from Latin caupō. See also chapman.
Cognate with Scots chepe, chape, North Frisian keap, West Frisian keap, Dutch koop, kopen, Low German kopen, German Kauf, kaufen, Swedish köp, köpa, Norwegian Nynorsk kjøpa, Icelandic kaup, kaupa; also borrowed as Finnish kauppa.
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