hap

 
Pronunciation: /hap/
archaic

noun

[mass noun]
  • luck; fortune: if you have the good hap to come into their houses
  • [count noun] a chance occurrence, especially an event that is considered unlucky: I entertained the Company with the many Haps and Disasters

verb (haps, happing, happed)

[no object]
  • come about by chance: what can hap to him worthy to be deemed evil?
  • [with infinitive] have the fortune or luck to do something: where’er I happ’d to roam

Origin:

Middle English: from Old Norse happ