market English · revision 3654

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=before 1121|origins=la merx}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: UK /ˈmɑː.kɪt/, US /ˈmɑːr.kɪt/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|enm|markete]], [[bor|fro-nor|market|t=marketplace, trade]], a form of Old French [[m|fro|marchiet]] (modern French [[m|fr|marché]]),^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(Klein 1966) from [[la|mercātus|t=trading, trade; a market]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(AHD 2000) from [[m|la|mercārī|t=to trade, deal in]], from [[m|la|merx|t=wares, merchandise]].^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(AHD 2000) Etymonline, citing de Vaan, notes that the root may come from Etruscan, like the name of the god Mercurius.^(Etymonline) Hoad and the Shorter Oxford point out that late Old English already had the compound [[m|ang|gēarmarkett|t=year market]], from Old Saxon.^(Hoad 1986)^(SOED 2002) It is a [[doublet]] of [[mart]],^(Klein 1966) and related to [[merchant]] and [[mercantile]].^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ A meeting at a fixed time for buying and selling: before 1121, as ''markete''.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ A public place for a market is from the 13th century,^(Hoad 1986)^(Etymonline) and ''marketplace'' from 1389.^(Barnhart 1988) ''Market price'' is from the mid-15th century.^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) The sense “opportunity for selling” is from the 16th century,^(Hoad 1986) “a region where goods are bought and sold” from the 1610s, and “trade as governed by supply and demand” from the 1680s;^(Etymonline) Locke first used ''market value'' in the 1690s.^(Etymonline) The verb is recorded from 1455^(HTOED) or the 1630s.^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) ''Marketable'' is in Shakespeare's ''As You Like It'' (1600).^(Barnhart 1988) ''Market garden'' is from 1789, ''market research'' from 1921^(Etymonline) or 1926,^(Barnhart 1988) ''black market'' from 1931 and the ''Common Market'' from 1954.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * before 1121 – ''markete'', a market.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 13th century – a marketplace.^(Hoad 1986)

+ * 1389 – ''marketplace''.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1455 – verb, to sell in a market.^(HTOED)

+ * 1600 – ''marketable'' (Shakespeare).^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1610s – a region of trade.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1680s – supply and demand.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1931 – ''black market''.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1954 – ''Common Market''.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A public gathering for buying and selling goods.^(AHD)^(SOED 2002)

+ # A place where goods are sold; a shop selling a particular kind of goods.^(AHD)^(Etymonline)

+ # The trade in a particular commodity: ''the housing market''.^(AHD)

+ # Demand for goods; a region or group of potential buyers.^(AHD)^(Etymonline)

+ # Trade as governed by [[supply and demand]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ===Verb===

+ # To offer for sale; to promote and sell.^(AHD)^(Etymonline)

+ # To buy household supplies.^(AHD)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[marketer]]

+ * [[Haymarket]]

+ * [[unmarketed]]

+ * [[marketeer]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[mart]]

+ * [[mercantile]]

+ * [[merchant]]

+ * [[merchandise]]

+ * [[commerce]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}