Where does “crafts” come from?
Crafts derives from Middle English craft, Old English cræft, Proto-West Germanic kraftu, and Proto-Germanic kraftuz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European -tus.
crafts (English): plural of craft; Third-person singular simple...
Definitions
- plural of craft; Third-person singular simple...
Ancestry of “crafts”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | craft | Strength; power; might; force; Intellectual... |
| 2 | German | kraft | on the basis of; by virtue of; by means of,... |
| 3 | Middle High German | kraft | — |
| 4 | Old High German | kraft | — |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | kraftu | strength, power; skill |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | kraftuz | strength, power |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | -þuz | Forms result nouns from verb roots, usually from... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |
Words derived from “crafts”