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behap

verb

Etymology

From be- + hap (“luck, chance, event, occurrence”).

  1. derived from *hampijaną✻
  2. derived from *happa✻
  3. inherited from hæppan — “to move accidentally, slip”
  4. inherited from happen
  5. derived from *kob-✻ — “good fortune, prophecy; to bend, bow, fit in, work, succeed”
  6. derived from *hampą✻ — “convenience, happiness”
  7. derived from happ — “hap, chance, good luck”
  8. inherited from hap
  9. prefixed as behap — “be + hap”

Definitions

  1. To happen.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for behap. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA