market

enm-noun

market (plural marketes, dative markete)

English: market (see there for further descendants)

Middle Scots: market, mercat

Scots: market

Yola: maarkeet, markeat

From late Old English market (“market”), from Old Northern French markiet (Old French marchié), Old Saxon markat, and/or Old Norse markaðr; all ultimately from Vulgar Latin marcātus, from classical Latin mercātus (“trade, market”).
Variants ending /t/ are from either Old Saxon or Old Picard, while those ending in /θ/ are from other varieties of Old Northern French (e.g. Walloon).

(rare) A market town; a town where markets are held.


store

English: store

Scots: store

→ Welsh: stôr

From Anglo-Norman stor, estour, ultimately from Latin instaurare. Compare warnestore.


assay

English: assay, say

Scots: assay, say, sey

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman assai, from Late Latin exagium.

Examining; investigation, looking into, research:

Trialling, assaying; the ensuring of quality (usually of a substance, but also of a document)

The trial or testing of one's personality or personal qualities.

An attack (as a trial of one's mettle or ability on the battlefield)

The trialling of comestibles or nourishments (mostly in ceremony)


hood

English: hood

Scots: hude, huid

From Old English hōd, from Proto-Germanic *hōdaz.

A hood made of chain mail used as head armour.


venu

English: venue


boten

boten (infinitive)
to boten (infinitive)
bote (infinitive)
bote (first-person present singular)
boted (first-person past singular)
botest (present second-person singular)
botedest (past second-person singular)
boteth (present singular third-person)
boted (past singular third-person)
bote (present singular subjunctive)
boted (past singular subjunctive)
bote (imperative present singular)
boten (plural present)
bote (plural present)
boteden (past plural)
botede (past plural)
boteth (imperative plural present)
bote (imperative plural present)
botynge (participle present)
botende (participle present)
boted (participle past)
yboted (participle past)

English: boot

Scots: bute, buit

From Old English bōtian; equivalent to bote (“help”) + -en (infinitival suffix).

af

To be useful, helpful, or handy; to come in, be of, or be able to be productively used.

(rare) To add an extra item in a swapping of goods to make the things swapped equivalent.

(rare) To profit, to gain or obtain benefit from.


sellen

enm-verb

sellen (third-person singular simple present selleth, present participle sellynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative solde, past participle sold)

selleth (present singular third-person)
sellynge (participle present)
solde (first-person indicative past singular third-person)
sold (participle past)
sellen (infinitive)
to sellen (infinitive)
selle (infinitive)
selle (first-person present singular)
solde (first-person past singular)
selde (first-person past singular)
sellest (present second-person singular)
soldest (past second-person singular)
seldest (past second-person singular)
selleth (present singular third-person)
selth (present singular third-person)
solde (past singular third-person)
selde (past singular third-person)
selle (present singular subjunctive)
solde (past singular subjunctive)
selde (past singular subjunctive)
selle (imperative present singular)
sellen (plural present)
selle (plural present)
solden (past plural)
solde (past plural)
selden (past plural)
selde (past plural)
selleth (imperative plural present)
selle (imperative plural present)
sellynge (participle present)
sellende (participle present)
sold (participle past)
seld (participle past)
ysold (participle past)
yseld (participle past)

English: sell

→ Dutch: sellen

Scots: sell

Inherited from Old English sellan, from Proto-West Germanic *salljan, from Proto-Germanic *saljaną (“to give”).

To sell; to make a sale or transaction:
To market; to put up for sale.

(usually negative) To give up in exchange (outside of an explicit transaction).

(religion) To sell one's soul; to consign one's soul to Hell.

(figuratively) To weaken, adulterate or lose (in exchange)

I nul ſulle my louerd foꝛ noneſ cunneſ eiſte. / bote hit be foꝛ þe þritti platen. þat he me bitaiſte.

c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39), folio 34, recto, lines 22-23; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 2019 May 29:

"I won't betray my Lord for any kind of good, / except for the thirty pieces that he left me."

To betray; to give up or hand over (usually a person)


felaweshipe

English: fellowship

Equivalent to felawe + -schipe; either a new ME formation or adapted from Old Norse félagskapr, félagsskapr.

Partnership or companionship; having company:

Festiveness, cheer, merriment; feasting and joy.


bargaynen

bargaynen (infinitive)
to bargaynen (infinitive)
bargayne (infinitive)
bargayne (first-person present singular)
bargayned (first-person past singular)
bargaynest (present second-person singular)
bargaynedest (past second-person singular)
bargayneth (present singular third-person)
bargayned (past singular third-person)
bargayne (present singular subjunctive)
bargayned (past singular subjunctive)
bargayne (imperative present singular)
bargaynen (plural present)
bargayne (plural present)
bargayneden (past plural)
bargaynede (past plural)
bargayneth (imperative plural present)
bargayne (imperative plural present)
bargaynynge (participle present)
bargaynende (participle present)
bargayned (participle past)
ybargayned (participle past)

English: bargain

Scots: bargain

→ Welsh: bargeinio

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman bargaigner, from Frankish *borganjan, from Proto-Germanic *burgijaną. Doublet of berien.

To bargain; to engage in negotiations over a sale.


bargayne

English: bargain

→ Scottish Gaelic: bargan

→ Welsh: bargen, bargain

Scots: bargain

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman bargaigne, from bargaigner, from Old French bargaine (noun), bargaignier (verb), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *borganjan (“to borrow, lend”), from Proto-Germanic *burgijaną (“to borrow, lend”).

der

A pact or concord; a legal agreement with legal force:


bargaynynge

English: bargaining

Negotiation; the achievement of agreement by discussion:

(rare) Unscrupulous or deceptive negotiating.

(rare) An item demanded as compensation.


serchour

English: searcher

Scots: saircher

/ˈsɛːrt͡ʃər/

Borrowed from Old French cercheor; equivalent to serchen + -our.

A searcher; an investigator or scrutiniser.

One who performs checkups or quality control:

A person employed by a guild to ensure adherence to guild guidelines.

A person who levies duties and examines the quality of trade goods.

(rare) An investigator of watches or postings.


serche

English: search

Scots: sairch

Yola: surchte

Borrowed from Old French cerche (“search”), from cerchier (“to search”); compare serchen.

bor+

(rare, Late Middle English) An inspection or inquest of goods or products.


spicerie

English: spicery

Scots: spicerie

From Old French espicerie; equivalent to spicer + -ie or spice + -erie.

A spice or spices; ground substances used as flavouring:

Spices used for their scents, aromas, or smells.

Spices used for their (purported) medical effects.

Spices used for the embalmment dead bodies.

A branch of a wealthy estate ensuring the provision or victualling of food.


mongere

English: monger

(rare outside of compounds) A retailer; a merchant.


botyng

An extra in a swapping to make the things swapped equivalent.


chaffare

English: chaffer (obsolete)

From Old English *ċēapfaru; equivalent to chep + fare. Compare Old Norse kaupfǫr.

Commercial or mercantile activity; trading.


chaffaren

enm-verb

chaffaren (third-person singular simple present chaffareth, present participle chaffarende, chaffarynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle chaffared)

chaffareth (present singular third-person)
chaffarende (participle present)
chaffarynge (participle present)
chaffared (first-person indicative participle past singular third-person)
chaffaren (infinitive)
to chaffaren (infinitive)
chaffare (infinitive)
chaffare (first-person present singular)
chaffared (first-person past singular)
chaffarest (present second-person singular)
chaffaredest (past second-person singular)
chaffareth (present singular third-person)
chaffared (past singular third-person)
chaffare (present singular subjunctive)
chaffared (past singular subjunctive)
chaffare (imperative present singular)
chaffaren (plural present)
chaffare (plural present)
chaffareden (past plural)
chaffarede (past plural)
chaffareth (imperative plural present)
chaffare (imperative plural present)
chaffarynge (participle present)
chaffarende (participle present)
chaffared (participle past)
ychaffared (participle past)

English: chaffer

From chaffare (“trade”) + -en (infinitival suffix).

af

(transitive, rare, usually with of) To trade in return for profit.