An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Käfter

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An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, K
by Friedrich Kluge, translated by John Francis Davis
Käfter
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This annotated version expands the abbreviations in the original entry Käfter. Random word Special:RandomInCategory/Annotated entries in Kluge's Etymological Dictionary of the German Language
2518756An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, K — KäfterJohn Francis DavisFriedrich Kluge

​ Käfter, neuter, compare Kabuse; the meaning ‘little chamber’ is Modern High German only; in Old High German chafteri, ‘beehive,’ Suabian Kâft, ‘student's room’. Allied to Anglo-Saxon ceafortûn, ‘hall’.

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