Haft
German
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old High German hafta
The German word Haft is the continuation of
- (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle High German haft f (“imprisonment”)
- (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle High German haft m (“captive, imprisonment, chain”)
- the adjective haft, see -haft[1]
Pronunciation
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Noun
Haft f (genitive Haft, no plural)
Derived terms
References
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Haft”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN