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The Etymology of Bargain and Its Background in Early Medieval Northwest European Trade
Ist Teil von
ANQ (Lexington, Ky.), 2023-01, Vol.36 (1), p.7-9
Ort / Verlag
Philadelphia: Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2023
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Taylor & Francis Journals Auto-Holdings Collection
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Sayers discusses the etymology of the word, bargain, and its background in early medieval northwest European trade. Bargain is generally used of a financially advantageous transaction, but in earlier English, the word denoted simply a transaction. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines the term as follows: "An agreement between two parties settling how much each gives and takes, or what each performs and receives, in a transaction between them". He comments that Bargain illustrates the need in the discipline of English etymology to go beyond the immediate source of a lexical loan into the less well-charted waters of the "source of the source" such as early Germanic or Celtic, if we are to gain fully satisfying explanations of the early dynamics of English vocabulary.