[Mid] Middle-English Word of the Day - December 31, 2007

Chapmen (n.) - merchant, (from chepen, meaning to transact business,
buy or sell).

If I lye on yow to my lewed wit, ledeth me to brennyng!
For as it semeth ye forsaketh no mannes almesse --
Of usurers, of hoores, of varouse /chapmen/ --
And louten to thise lordes that mowen lene yow nobles
Aye in youre rule and religion -- I take record at Jesus,
That seide to hise disciples, "Ne sitis acceptores
personarum."

- Langland, William: The vision of Piers Plowman (1377-1379)

Pronunciation: /tSApmEn/

Key
/tS/ ch in chin
/A/ a in father
/p/ p in pepper
/m/ m in make
/E/ e in met
/n/ n in no

The Middle-English Word of the Day is selected from Mayhew and
Skeat's "Concise Dictionary of Middle English", as found on Greg
Lindahl's website
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/concise/concise.html

The example text was found at the Middle English Collection of the
University of Virginia Library.
http://etext.virginia.edu/collections/languages/english/
mideng.browse.html

The approximate pronunciation is determined using Carol Hamill's
Middle English Pronunciation Guide
and noted using upon the ASCII-IPA Standard
http://www.island.net/~hamill/medieval/mepronunc.html
http://www.kirshenbaum.net/IPA/

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