See chapman on Wiktionary
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"sc": "",
"sort": "",
"tr": "",
"ts": ""
},
"expansion": "Middle English chapman",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "enm",
"3": "chapman"
},
"expansion": "Inherited from Middle English chapman",
"name": "inh+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "ang",
"3": "cēapmann",
"4": "",
"5": "dealer"
},
"expansion": "Old English cēapmann (“dealer”)",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Inherited from Middle English chapman, from Old English cēapmann (“dealer”) (cognate with synonymous German Kaufmann), from cēap (“barter, business, dealing”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "chapmen",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"10": "",
"2": "noun",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "plural",
"6": "chapmen",
"7": "",
"8": "",
"9": "",
"cat2": "",
"cat3": "",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "chapman (plural chapmen)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "chapmen"
},
"expansion": "chapman (plural chapmen)",
"name": "sco-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Requests for translations of Scots quotations",
"Scots entries with incorrect language header",
"Scots lemmas",
"Scots nouns",
"Scots terms derived from Middle English",
"Scots terms derived from Old English",
"Scots terms inherited from Middle English",
"Scots terms inherited from Old English",
"Scots terms with quotations",
"sco:Occupations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1790, Robert Burns, Tam o' Shanter:",
"text": "When chapman billies leave the street, / And drouthy neibors, neibors, meet",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"packman, pedlar"
],
"links": [
[
"packman",
"packman"
],
[
"pedlar",
"pedlar"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/tʃapman/"
}
],
"word": "chapman"
}
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