An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Hufe

by Friedrich Kluge

Hufe (Low German form), Hube (Upper German form), feminine, from the equivalent Middle High German huobe, Old High German huoba, feminine, ‘hide of land’ (about 30 acres), so still in Old Saxon hóƀa, feminine (in English an independent word is found from the earliest period — Anglo-Saxon hŷd, English hide). Cognate with Greek κῆπος, ‘garden’; the common type is kâpos.