English
happenchancehappenchance
Apparently from happen + chance, perhaps influenced by happenstance.
A compound of happen + chance
Middle English happen ‘to come to pass’
Middle English happenen ‘to happen’
English happen
Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂d-
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Latin cadō ‘to fall’
Vulgar Latin *cadentia ‘falling’
Old French cheance ‘accident’
Middle English chance
English chance
The story
Apparently from happen + chance, perhaps influenced by happenstance.
Today it means
noun Coincidence.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / happenchance
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