## Meanings
1. An activity that involves making things skilfully with your hands.
2. Skill in making or doing something well.
3. A particular skilled trade or profession.
4. To make something carefully and skilfully by hand.

## Examples
- Pottery is an ancient craft.
- She has mastered the craft of writing plays.
- He learned the carpenter's craft from his father.
- The artisan crafted a beautiful wooden bowl.

## Derived Forms
- craftable
- crafter
- uncrafted
- undercraft

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: craft
- Root: cræft
- Root: *kraftu
- Root: *kraftuz

## Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *krafjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *kraftuz Proto-West Germanic *kraftu Old English cræft Middle English craft English craft Inherited from Middle English craft (“strength, skill”), from Old English cræft (“strength, skill”), from Proto-West Germanic *kraftu, from Proto-Germanic *kraftuz (“strength, power”); further origin obscure. Cognate with German Kraft (“strength, power, force, energy, employee”) and Danish kraft (“strength, power, force”).

## AI Etymology
craft is inherited from Middle English craft (“strength, skill”), from Old English cræft (“strength, skill”), from Proto-West Germanic *kraftu, from Proto-Germanic *kraftuz (“strength, power”); further origin obscure. Cognate with German Kraft (“strength, power, force, energy, employee”) and Danish kraft (“strength, power, force”). The historical chain includes Middle English craft, Old English cræft, Proto-West Germanic *kraftu, Proto-Germanic *kraftuz. Current senses include An activity that involves making things skilfully with your hands and Skill in making or doing something well. English relatives and later formations include craftable, crafter, uncrafted.

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