cheap

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  • Cheaply.

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Origin

  • 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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