Archaic: to happen to occur; to befall or come about by chance or fortune.
Be- + hap (from Old Norse happ 'luck, fortune'). The word originally meant 'to happen by chance,' with hap being an Old Germanic root meaning 'luck' or 'fortune.'
Behap shares its root with 'mishap' and 'perhaps'—all from that Old Norse word for luck—so when you say 'perhaps' you're using an ancient cousin of 'behap,' though 'behap' itself is now completely obsolete.
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