•an informal unit of measure for the volume of dry goods used in farmers' markets especially for potatoes, equal to 5 litres, or 2 litres for pikku kappa · a measuring vessel of one kappa, roughly cubical and typically made of wood · skip (transportation container in a mine)
köken: According to NE: From Old Swedish kappa, from Medieval Latin cappa. According to SAOB online: From Old Swedish kappa, from Middle Low German kappe, ultimately from Late Latin cappa. According to Svensk etymologisk ordbok: From Old Swedish kappa, from Middle Low German kappe, borrowed from a Romance language, from Medieval Latin cappa, byform of cāpa, probably shortenings of a word derived from…
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *káput Proto-Italic *kaput Latin caput Latin capusbor. Esperanto kapo Borrowed from Latin capus (“head”). Doublet of ĉapitro.
[Alt: A cubical wooden measuring vessel, a kappa.] From Proto-Finnic *kappa (compare Estonian kapp, Ingrian kappa, Karelian kappa, Kukkuzi kappa, Ludian kappe), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *skapaz (compare Old Saxon skap (“a measure”), Old High German scaf (“vessel”)).